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Yuval - Studies of the Jewish Music Research Center, vol. 8 - Music in Antiquity - The Near East and the Mediterranean
… Music was one component of the cultural continuum that … continuum. The book, VIII of Yuval – Studies of the Jewish Music Research Centre at the Hebrew University, provides an updated scholarly assessment …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… take on prophecy and genius. This is one of the earliest Hebrew writings published by Idelsohn (February 7, 1908) … his own Gesamtkunstwerk, ‘Yiftah’, as ‘hizzayon negini’ (musical play). Modern Hebrew writers embraced the biblical … plays, plural of ‘hizzayon’] of Israel’s history, with musical accompaniment (i.e., ‘hizzayon negini’), ‘that will …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… Judith R. Cohen and Risto Pekka Pennanen In 2008 the Jewish Music Research Centre released a 4-CD package entitled An … public interest in the role commercial recordings had on musical traditions from the early twentieth century, that … his works in Ladino,” Shevet ve’am 1(6), pp. 116-135 (in Hebrew) … Attias, Moshe 1972 >>> Cancionero judeo-español . …
The Idelsohn Project
… Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in … the world is “Hava Nagila” (“Come, let us rejoice”). This Hebrew ode to happiness surfaces without fail at weddings … niggun) Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, was a European-born Jewish musician who insisted that music and affect were inseparable …
Call for papers
… Yuval, the yearbook of the Jewish Music Research Center at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is an open-access online … since December of 2019. Dedicated to the study of Jewish musical traditions and their cultural habitats, the new …
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… Yuval is the flagship publication of the Jewish Music Research Center (JMRC) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Appearing since 1968, three … the editors. Its progenies, Yuval Monographs and Yuval Music followed it; both series offer alternative formats …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… already includes a linguistic ambivalence, as it mixes Hebrew with Aramaic. Without addressing anew the diverse … remarks refer to the two main sharqi versions documented musically, the ones from the ancient cities of Aleppo … their brethren from the lands of Islam in Palestine had musical ramifications that are still to be studied. The …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… the earliest surviving specimens of Middle Eastern Jewish musical traditions. By nature of the technological … opportunity to validate historical theories of musical change that have been based solely on the … the city is succinctly documented in an announcement in the Hebrew daily Aherouth (i.e. Ha-herut): Jerusalem, Guests – …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the recent passing of ethnomusicologist Avigdor Herzog (1922-2022), one of the founders … The newly established Jewish Music Research Centre at the Hebrew University, expanded the trained personnel engaged in …
El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… magnificent collection of 78 rpm recordings of Sephardic music is well-known to all those interested in this … interactions characteristic of modern North African Jewish music. The other side of our record contains another Andalusian Hebrew song, La’ad aromimkha malki . Crossing boundaries …