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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… also includes a brief general history of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of the cultural life of Jews in … NLI; see ex. 1); [8] based on an unpublished mimeographed collection of Ephraim Abileah’s songs I was able to … Hebrew verse to this song was documented in the autobiographical songster of Netiva Ben Yehuda (1990, 112), and it …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… once the printing press started to produce prayer books in rapidly increasing numbers to satisfy the expanding demand. … allegiance to a Christian source. The melodic and contrapuntal qualities of the opening closely resemble those of … Archive has much to offer Jewish music scholarship. Biography of Salamone Rossi at the JMRC website Song of the …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… songs that have not entered the canon of the modern discography. It also barely survived in the Sephardic oral traditions which were recorded in ethnographic pursuits since the mid-20th century. The song was …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… 1895−1965 . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. Biographical narratives are often based on the idea of … and cultural configurations. But inasmuch as this biography is underpinned by historical interest, it also aspires … formation and maintenance of Jewish identity”, Unger’s biography arguably abandons the “frustrating model” of …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… Press, 2019. If you want a bog-standard show-biz biography of Irving Berlin — chattily written, without … for you. Berlin died in 1989 at the age of 101. A ‘biography’ of sorts by his friend Alexander Woollcott, a version … any more than for Kaplan’s speculation about the photograph of Berlin allegedly aged 13, of which no copy is shown …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… being made, los yaprakis si stan koziendo. The stuffed grape leaves are being baked. Aman, aman, aman, aman Aman , … place in a more remote past as well. On the other hand, the rapid dissemination of “Pesah a la mano” is of course the …
Moshe Cordova
… least two pieces sung by him appear in the old 78rpm discography, both with his partner in Istanbul, the aforementioned … notes of this concert are attached below. Note: this biography is based on Edwin Seroussi’s lecture titled “Moshe …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… musical analysis of the composition, and an extensive biographical article. Racheli Galay , cello Amit Weiner , piano …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… of the secondary literature, presenting a couple of paragraphs each on numerous aspects of klezmer history and … spectacularly. After 125 pages of a tightly choreographed journey with detailed explanations and diagrams, I … into what it has meant for him to “think in klezmer” (to paraphrase Paul Berliner, who Rubin also cites) as both an …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… of the oral histories as well as the professional historiography, and Hersch is right to seek to dislodge them, if not … also continue to pervade and delimit the historiography of world Jewry, to the exclusion of Jews of color such …