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The Comedian Harmonists - Documentary
… a baritone, two tenors, a piano player and one who imitated musical instruments, was a huge success. They appeared in … the history of these six performers, but this is not a musical, but a documentary, utilizing archival footage and … between them and deals with questions concerning their life under a totalitarian regime and the manner in which …
Nuba of Gold and Light - Nuba d'or et de la lumiere
… word nuba is “taking turns.” This is the name given to a musical genre that developed in Morocco beginning in the 9th … Izza Génini, who has been exploring various aspects of the life, history, and culture of her birthplace Morocco for … our first edition. This year, she offers us a historical musical journey that touches upon the roots of her identity. …
The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire
… 'No image of prerevolutionary Russian Jewish life is more iconic than the fiddler on the roof. But in the … Jewish culture … Russian Empire … James Loeffler … The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire …
Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s Legacy
… ways redefined the international study of music in Jewish life. Using that book as a centerpiece, the three presenters … the development of Idelsohn’s aesthetic vision of Israeli musical culture during his years in the yishuv and … Do Hebrews Play Music?: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Musical Aesthetics of Zionism Where did Zionist aesthetics …
Bloch: Known and Unknown
… was an outcome of a complex response to Wagnerian racial-musical theory via the intermediary of Houston Stuart … it and was it shared by critics and interpreters in Bloch’s lifetime and subsequently? To what extent did they consider … to his Jewish works. I also consider how far Bloch’s musical dialectic of Jewish particularism and universality, …
Jewish Identities and Ideologies in Music
… her recording projects aimed at documenting the incomers’ musical traditions. In this paper I consider how successive … instrumentalist. The documents will be reviewed for their musical and biographical content and their unusual data on … the unrelenting pressure brought on the Levis, in everyday life, to save their souls by converting to Christianity. …
Judeo-Spanish Traditions in Transition
… Crypto or former Crypto-now-open Jews, and how their musical life does and does not conform to often romantic notions …
Hanoch Jacoby: (1909-1990)
… Jacoby, containing: Article about Hanoch Jacoby's works and musical character, chronology of his life and list of works. … 1 … Tel-Aviv … Israel Music …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… in that the piyyutim are arranged according to the maqamat (musical modes) in use in the court music of the Ottoman Empire during the author’s lifetime. Moreover, the lehanim (plural of lahan, tune or … required his piyyutim to be sung are borrowed from the musical culture of the Sephardi Jews of Spain (tunes of …
Mi-al har horev from the manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte
… was inspired by several recent inquiries regarding the musical manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte. The staff of … picture regarding this interesting set of early Hebrew musical manuscripts. In 1918, a fragment containing medieval … the Norman Proselyte. Basic information about Obadiah's life and education has been gleaned from his memoirs, …