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Ben-Zion (Yisrael Noach) Kapov-Kagan
… in 1899 in Romania. He began singing from a young age in a number of synagogue choirs, obtaining his first paid …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… bars are the musical counterpart of the constant numbers of syllables adhered to in a regular meter and the … as a pizmon . It consists of four stanzas with differing number of lines (four, five, five, and six respectively) … melody is actually A x B, whereas x represents the varying number of lines in each stanza while B is only used for the …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… two hemistiches of five and six syllables respectively, numbered for the sake of easy comparison between the musical …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… the songs The collection has sixty unaccompanied melodies, numbered 1–64 (four items appear twice: nos. 6/49, 8/19, … to the recordings in Zemereshet together with the ID numbers of the song pages . No, 10, “Unidentified tune,” is … in the original Hebrew edition. I was unable to verify page number in the English edition. [7] For Shulamit Rosenfeld’s …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… press started to produce prayer books in rapidly increasing numbers to satisfy the expanding demand. Many unique … stresses the intensification implied by the growing number of words in each repetition of this pledge of the …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… certainly competent for its sort of standard ethnic comedy number, and Berlin’s reedy voice is recognizable thanks to … Berlin and his director Ezra Stone which led to a blackface number being reluctantly dropped from the stage show (206); he does not mention that this number was restored to the 1943 film of the show (and today …
Moshe Cordova
… musicians who found themselves in voluntary exile. The number of expatriate experts in Ottoman Hebrew music far exceeded the number of those who chose to remain in the Turkish Republic …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… what he calls the “exploitation narrative,” and given the number of jazz labels run by Jews that provided essential …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… of high importance. We propose to depart from the limited number of musicians that have been addressed in the …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… increasing marginalization, forced conversions, dwindling numbers and cultural prejudices against Ethiopian Jews; the …