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Moshe Cordova
… m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … career as a synagogue singer and composer. Parallel to his musical career he developed a business in the field of … its activities in Istanbul. The Mafṭirim performed Hebrew poetry set to Turkish classical music on the Sabbaths …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… African Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew song, which had developed starting in the sixteenth … patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. Purim, Purim Lanu (Ladino … literary genres in different languages, written and oral. A Hebrew song generates a popular saying combining Hebrew and …
Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… on December 13, 2020 as part of a American Friends of the Hebrew University program, examines (with audio … Prof. Seroussi offers a master class on contemporary Jewish music scholarship and methodology. … Chanukkah … Hanukkah …
David Conway
… is an Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College, and was a … Studies in 2019-20. His publications include Jewry in Music: Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to … opera company HGO. (Photo credit: Smerus ) … British music historian … David Conway …
Dan Deutsch
… Deutsch is currently an Azrieli postdoctoral fellow in the Musicology Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. His …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical performance of the three verses. The precious Leo Levi recorded collection of Italian Jewish musical traditions includes four versions of Elohim … of Jacobson’s article, one sees how the allure of Rossi’s Hebrew compositions to modern scholars impacts the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … A lengthy introduction provides ample historical and musical contexts. Karnes did not spare any effort in trying … songs, it seems that the absence of a scholar familiar with Hebrew and Yiddish folk songs was detrimental to this …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… of spiritual reality in the late Sephardic piyyut ,' [In Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the … such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … among various communities, there seems to be an underlying musical structure tying together all the documented versions …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in Berlin, Leipzig, Heidelberg, Freiburg i. Br. … There he founded the Archive for Oriental Music at the Hebrew University. Edith Gerson-Kiwi joined him, working as …
Nili Belkind
… Nili Belkind is a research fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University (2014) and is an ethnomusicologist specializing in the Middle East—with a special …