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«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, the composer Solomon Rosowsky published a short … university-level students in the late Russian Empire was a musician at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. [3] While the … world strenuously denied Jews entry, Russia’s greatest musical academy welcomed them with open arms. Picture 1: …

Sher
… and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … refers to the term in question. It also indicates whether musical notation or sound recordings are included in the … performed with partners.” EncyJud 1971, p. 1266 . “Two groups developed dance forms of their own--the Hasidim and …

Sirba
… and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … refers to the term in question. It also indicates whether musical notation or sound recordings are included in the … Moldavian bulgareasca is a sub-species of sirba; Stoinav groups his bulgareascas with the sirba (1972)...” Feldman …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… th centuries and developed under Turkish-Ottoman and Arabic musical influences. Contents The tradition of … This singing is part of the liturgical and para-liturgical musical tradition of communities that descended from Jews … only on Shabbat. The practice of singing the baqqashot in groups seems to have originated in Sefad among the students …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali Herz Imber’s poem … circumstances in which Imber’s poem was shaped and the musical contrafactum (adaption of a preexisting melody to a … and its splintering into discrete and often irreconcilable groups whose last moment of global solidarity was marked by …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… men's songs (including liturgical and para-liturgical music). The repertoire also deals with themes that reflect … life, as well as material and corporeal subjects. [1] The music in these songs reflects the feelings and state of the … include quarter notes, pairs of eighth notes and pairs or groups of four sixteenth notes. The text-music relation in …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… remembered for his contributions to the liturgical music of American Reform Judaism and his work on Biblical … most important early collectors and arrangers of Zionist music in America. In 1916, at the age of 21, Binder founded … be found in other folk song' (1932: XXIX). Furthermore, he groups this melody with a number of songs that are 'fused of …

The Music of Kurdistan Jews - a Synopsis of their Musical Styles
… including a strong tendency towards linguistic as well as musical dialect formation. It is only natural that the musical traditions of Kurdistan Jews should also have been … … Kurds … Culture … Musical traditions … Jewish cultural groups … Musical styles … The Music of Kurdistan Jews - a …

Musical Tradition and its Transmitters between Synagogue and Church
… folksong' and its applicability in the instance of the musical tradition of the old Synagogue; (2) the attitude of Western music historians to the question of Jewish influence on … task to trace, and if possible to identify the persons or groups of persons who acted as carriers of the …

A.Z. Idelsohn: A Pioneer in Jewish Ethnomusicology
… of the twentieth century, the study and research of Jewish music was motivated by the belief that the music of biblical times survived in the living traditions of … Orient with its many Afro-Asiatic communities and ethnic groups. … 9480 … Abraham Zvi Idelsohn … Idelsohn A.Z. … …