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Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of … the Kyiv collection] has attracted the attention of musicians and scholars of Jewish music ever since they … we share as mentioned above the PDF version of the impressive catalogue conceived and directed by Prof. Israel …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… means of communication capable of surmounting estrangement. Music and music making was an area of cultural expression in which the Jewish-Muslim encounter was intense. …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem … role in the documentation of this repertoire during an impressive period spanning seventy years. Alicia will be … and aunts, as women were primary bearers of this lore. Ethnomusicologist Susana Weich-Shahak of the JMRC, who held a …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras . Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2020. New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century … trilogy of sorts, alongside Hankus Netsky’s Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth Century Jewish Philadelphia …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… and penetrating history of Jews in American jazz music, which should become a first stop for those wishing to … nearly everything about the history of Jews and jazz music is difficult to categorize, analyze, or even begin to … and their cultural forms due to shared experiences of oppression) and “the exploitation narrative” (that Jews …
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 … Jews of the Spanish-Portuguese Rite of Istanbul). Their impressive synagogue on Kuledibi Şair Ziya Paşa Street was …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… and Mordecai, stressing the popular joy traditionally expressed on Purim for this miraculous turn of events. “Purim, … patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. Purim, Purim Lanu (Ladino …
David Conway
… Studies in 2019-20. His publications include Jewry in Music: Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to Richard Wagner (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He is a member of the editorial board of the … opera company HGO. (Photo credit: Smerus ) … British music historian … David Conway …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… Irving Berlin: New York Genius . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. If you want a bog-standard show-biz biography … early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take on assumed black music tastes) on which all of Berlin’s early works centred. …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Jewish Meaning, 1895−1965 . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. Biographical narratives are often based on the … in Unger’s history: Unger decided to “devote his life to music making” after hearing Mahler’s Lied von der Erde ; he … concerts whose programs revolved mainly around Mahler’s music to the repeated efforts to perform Mahler in Canada. …