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Meir Shimon Geshuri

… Silesia, then part of the German Empire (now Mysłowice, Poland), Geshuri (a name derived from the Hebrew for “bridge,” … fondness for the Hassidic niggun. In my memory are always present some of the visits that I made accompanying my … identity. In the first part of this article he stresses past Jewish contributions to the Western musical canon …

Asher Shimon Mizrahi

… father Yitzhak Mizrahi, who was a well-known torah scholar and teacher. After the first few years of Asher’s life, his … bring biskochos (cookies), borrekas (stuffed phyllo dough pastries) and Hamin (a slow cooked stew that is the staple … When he would enter a room with his musician friends, all present would rise in his honor. His ud was a gift from the …

Mordekhai Zeira

… family, his musical education consisted mostly of a handful of piano lessons, which he received as a reward for … ingredient. This is true for 'Erets-Yisrael' of the past as for Israel of the present. In his songs, Zeira transmits a vast narrative of …

Israel Adler

… Israel Adler was born in Berlin in 1925 and immigrated to Palestine with his parents at the age of … pertaining to the music of the Jewish communities in the past and present. The intellectual backdrop of this goal can be …

Amnon Shiloah

… upon himself the dangerous journey of moving from Syria to Mandatory British Palestine/Eretz Israel through the Golan … obligatory tool for any student of music under Islam in the past and the present, uncover an intellectual universe that is well …

The Klezmer Tradition in the Land of Israel

… This publication presents the klezmer repertoire that developed in Israel, … klezmer tradition, discusses the stylistic characteristics and genres of this music in the past and in the present and clarifies the relations between …

Romancing the Romance: Perceptions (and Boundaries) of the Judeo-Spanish Ballad

… During the past decade or so, the Judeo-Spanish romance has enjoyed a … been discrepancies between the approaches of performers and scholars, an occurrence by no means peculiar to … genre and, by extension, of the culture and people it represents. If so, it is possible that is has become a more …

Hebraeisch-orientalischer Melodienschatz, 09[G]: Der Volksgesang der osteuropaeischen Juden

… contains Jewish folk songs in the Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian and Ukranian languages. Each song is printed with … from other anthologies of East-European Jewish folk songs, past and recent, whose main interest is the text; here, the … the classification of the songs and in the order of their presentation. In Idelsohn's words: 'The method here pursued …

Jewish musical culture - past and present

… International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation … … 37 … 1995 … Uri Sharvit … Jewish musical culture - past and present …

From the present to the past; a new approach to music in Jewish and Christian ritual

… … Ancient Israel … Christian … Christianity … Regina Randhofer … Regina Randhofer … From the present to the past; a new approach to music in Jewish and Christian ritual …

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