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Jewish Identities and Ideologies in Music
… musicologist Robert Lachmann to establish an Archive of Oriental Music there in 1935. Lachmann’s insistence on … and political necessity to foster understanding between Jews and Arabs. After 1948, as Jews from Arab lands flowed into the new state of Israel, …
The Father of Jewish Musicology and the Natives: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Yemenites
… some time in early 1907. He had been told that the true oriental source of his nation's music could be found in this … address his work on 'the most Jewish and most Arab of all Jews', those hailing from the Yemen, and anchor it within … music, as the first volume of his Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies will attest. However I will also examine …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… to Berlin, the rapidly growing hub for Eastern European Jews seeking modern education, studied at a gymnasium and … , another exiled German Jew. While Lachmann’s programs on “Oriental Music” in the Mandatory radio station received due … political movement. Geshuri strongly emphasized the “Oriental” character of the Hassidic niggun that originated, …
Ezra Aharon ("Azuri")
… for the ‘ud at the 1932 International Congress of Oriental Music, Cairo. Aharon immigrated from Iraq to Israel in 1935 and developed ‘Oriental’ styles in Palestine/Israel. He was active on … biographies: The World Online Encyclopedia Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World Zemereshet (Hebrew) In this …
Abraham Eilam-Amzallag
… of the Singing of Supplications ("Bakkashot") Among Morocco Jews", under the guidance of Professor Amnon Shiloah and … Melos with Western compositional techniques. His works fuse Oriental Jewish melisma and modern techniques. In 1994 he …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… volume of his seminal ten-volume work, Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies, which was a comprehensive study of the … the musical traditions of Babylonian, Perisan, Bukharian, Oriental Sephardi, Moroccan, German, Eastern European and … Upon Zangwill’s question, how can I return to Russia, where Jews were so maltreated, I answered that I prefer to be with …
Israel J. Katz
… (d. 1989) on the series Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews. Katz served as editor of Ethnomusicology (1970–72); … 1988). Katz concentrated his studies on the Sephardic and Oriental Jewish communities of the Mediterranean region, and … most recent work is related to a historical research on 'Oriental' music based on the editing of voluminous archival …
Amnon Shiloah
… the French Government towards a Ph.D. in Musicology and Oriental Studies at the Sorbonne where he graduated in 1963. … Yerushalayim (Center for the Study of the Sephardic and Oriental Heritage, 1975-1976), Head of the Institute of … exclusive ethnographic experience among the contemporary Jews of the Lands of Islam who moved to Israel. Of …