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Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… change and acculturation in musical practice, and the Iraqi musicians provided an incredibly rich case study to investigate. In Baghdad, Jewish musicians had for generations served as the most prominent … for what became known as modern Iraqi music. Most of these musicians moved to Israel in the early 1950s, part of the …
Moshe Attias
… one of the most distinguished and long-standing Moroccan musicians in Israel. This short note prepared by JMRC … impressions following his 2011 encounter, in company with musician and discographer Uri Wertheim, with Mwijo. We are … Jewish performing artists and composers, from a family of musicians going back at least to his grandfather. His …
Yonatan Turgeman
… in the Mandel School of Advanced Studies, and an active musician ('Avodot Afar'). His dissertation, 'The Science of …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long time, was … as elsewhere in the Arab world during the Nahda era, Jewish musicians played an active role in the performance and … of musical inspiration, he was ironically greeted by the musicians present as the “thief of songs”, whence he …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… Jews), Kurmanji, Hebrew and Arabic. He was a sought-after musician, faithfully representing the Kurdish tradition in a …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … scales recalls the debate between two prominent Jewish musicians affiliated with the St. Petersburg Society for … Saminski’s position intersected with ideas propagated by musicians in the Jewish community of Palestine. Critic …
Moshe Cordova
… not music, became his means of sustenance. His impact as a musician in Israel was peripheral, as interest in Ottoman … Odekha is a poem by the great late 16 th century poet/musician Rabbi Israel Najara from Damascus, the first Jewish … trajectory is one of many stories of late Ottoman Jewish musicians who found themselves in voluntary exile. The …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… change and acculturation in musical practice, and the Iraqi musicians provided an incredibly rich case study to investigate. In Baghdad, Jewish musicians had for generations served as the most prominent … for what became known as modern Iraqi music. Most of these musicians moved to Israel in the early 1950s, part of the …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Klezmer presents the long-gestating work of a major klezmer musician whose performing career also served as a gateway to … overlap between aging players and enthusiastic young musicians starting around the 1970s. Beginning with an archive of 78 rpm recordings, the field gained depth as musicians conducted oral histories, engaged in collective …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… Willie “The Lion” Smith from the status of Jewish jazz musician. Rather Hersch chooses to discuss the career of … them equally American Jews as they were both equally jazz musicians) we can glimpse once again the normative and … Jewry and jazz (authentic Jews are white; authentic jazz musicians are Black), Hersch ends up sometimes repeating the …