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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… A lengthy introduction provides ample historical and musical contexts. Karnes did not spare any effort in trying … the cultural life of Jews in Latvia, with emphasis on their musical ecosystem. According to Karnes, folk songs were … of the editorial policy employed in handling the various aspects of Melngailis’s manuscript. The only unfortunate …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… to Mahler, according to Tesler-Mabé, is not only a musical and personal issue. Mahler, he argues, deeply affected Unger because he musically expressed a shared German-Jewish experience of … of sacrificial transcendence.” (Sacks 2013, 113). These aspects are excluded from Tesler-Mabé’s view, most likely …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Similarly, Rubin’s study relies heavily on minute musical detail—including intricate discussions of form and … he embraces the idea that canonical figures can define a musical style, and that a ready community will receive and … presenting a couple of paragraphs each on numerous aspects of klezmer history and performance alongside …
Arabs - Jews - Music
… in which the Jewish-Arab encounter was intense. Shared musical spaces between Arabs and Jews is becoming a subject … to consolidate within it studies that highlight different aspects of the musical lives of Jews in/from Arab countries, the …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… tourists to Ethiopian culture. Traditional Ethiopian musical instruments including the krar (harp) , masinqo (one … scholarship, much of which was focused on the Jewish aspects of the community’s culture, or alternatively, had … Jews into hegemonic Jewish Israeliness. Studying secular musical traditions that Beta Israel had shared with their …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… public interest in the role commercial recordings had on musical traditions from the early twentieth century, that … ago Sunday, November 22, 2020, 7 p.m. Hadass Pal-Yarden : musical direction, vocals Yaniv Ovadia : baglama Eliyahu … Rivka 2011b >>> “From Written Text to Folksong: On Some Aspects of the Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) Cancionero on the Eve …
A Liturgy within the Liturgy: The German Torah Service in Past and Present
… framework of the collaborative project German-Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections funded by the German-Israeli … event endowed with pomp and circumstance. The dramatic musical evolution of this service is one of the topics … the evolution of the Torah service illuminates less-studied aspects of Jewish modernity. Changing patterns of …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern Jewish musical research. Idelsohn’s life traversed several … artifacts that still define in many ways the Jewish musical imagination in both its scholarly and popular forms. … archive at the National Library of Israel, covered certain aspects of Idelsohn’s Jerusalem period (1907-1921, with some …