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Dan Deutsch
… Deutsch is currently an Azrieli postdoctoral fellow in the Musicology Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. … earned his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. His … social status as part of a Jewish minority. In his current research, he expands the scope of his dissertation by …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… there are many), not showing much in the way of original research, and full of phrases (such as “in all likelihood’’, … 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. …
David Conway
… David Conway is an Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish … 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 …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From … Taqsim , released in the framework of the Jewish Music Research Centre’s Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… dedicated to the life and work of cellist, composer, researcher and pedagogue Joachim-Yehoyachin Stutschewsky … glad to launch the sixth volume in the Contemporary Jewish Music series, 13 Jewish Folk Tunes, an online … downloadable program notes on the genesis of this work, musical analysis of the composition, and an extensive …
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: … trilogy of sorts, alongside Hankus Netsky’s Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth Century Jewish Philadelphia … corpus of material upon which Rubin and his contemporary researchers relies came about through a generational overlap …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns … and aunts, as women were primary bearers of this lore. Ethnomusicologist Susana Weich-Shahak of the JMRC, who held a …
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 … this day, three decades after it started. The Jewish Music Research Centre (JMRC) is one of the institutions that has …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … for the symbolic public display, through the language of music, of new evolving aesthetic ideals, of Jewish public … were lost forever during the Nazi era and the Shoah. As a research strategy, however, this “decline” is often …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and music. The neighborhood had grown around an absorption … be fired at the kiln and put up for sale, and a traditional music and dance troupe . Also named Meseret , the troupe … university was supportive of my wish to conduct independent research among the Beta Israel community in Israel. In 1989, …