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Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… specifically bears on Unger. The assertion that Jewishness played a key role in Unger’s life in Canada is … will suffice here to focus on the role the figure of Mahler plays in Tesler-Mabé’s narrative. Mahler surely looms large … beyond the performance of Jewishness. But Mahler probably played a role in Unger’s attempt to situate himself as a …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics:…
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… in the Arab world during the Nahda era, Jewish musicians played an active role in the performance and perpetuation of … the famous record’s origins—both the song and its singer—I played the copy on my phone to a variety of people familiar … how this new biography is mediated by the interplay of human and non-human actors, this article brings …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… a selection of Adler’s editions and issued them in the long-play record titled Jewish Baroque Music . However, it was a … community in Amsterdam. The recording appeared in the long-play Synagogal Music in the Baroque , the first audio …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… we addressed. “Yarad el hay” as found in Seder zemanim displays the close interaction between Hebrew and Judeo-Spanish … Yurchenko and sung by Alicia Benassayag de Bendayan, displays a version with a high level of embellishment. However, …
Yonatan Turgeman
… approaches to the phenomenon of song as well as the interplay between creative musical endeavors and the formation of …
Moshe Attias
… Mwijo began his music career in Israel singing and playing the mandolin, an instrument associated mostly with … but he would eventually switch to the kemanja (violin played upright in the North African style). Between 1962 and … him to perform in Germany. Mwijo adamantly refused to play in Germany because of the Holocaust – even after an …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… 1948. Neil Levin included this song in an educational long-play entitled The American Jewish Experience in Song …