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Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… on the other hand, spoke forcefully about his own Jewish religious faith and practices, including his own bar mitzvah … and Shaw perhaps only marginally so. Later in his life Smith would serve as cantor in a Black Jewish synagogue …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… it throughout history, with the rise of national/ethno-religious conflicts that followed the fall of the Ottoman … Iran, and the sociocultural milieus in which they came to life. The project also features studies that address how … musical genres, modal frameworks and rhythms influenced the religious music of Jews throughout this vast geographical …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… last social processes blurred the distinction between the religious and non-religious spheres of Jewish music-making since late 19 th … this reassessment, allowing for new insights into Jewish life in Central Europe in the last centuries, as they have …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… immigrated to Israel, which was becoming a new center of life for the Ethiopian Jewish community. The oftentimes … and Falasha History (1986) situated Falasha liturgy and religious practices in a broader Ethiopian and Christian … believed these would reflect the joys, hardships, and daily life of a community in transition/crisis—which I framed in …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… in detail in that article. Research of Moroccan Jewish religious music has been largely, if not exclusively, … le-hayyim tovim ul-shalom” (“A New Moon for blessing, good life and peace”). This verse echoes in its wording the … Maghrebi) resistance to centripetal forces affecting the religious culture of the Jews from Islamic countries in …
Salamone Rossi’s HaShirim Asher LiShlomo in its Fourth Centennial (5383-5783)
… of polyphonic settings of Hebrew prayers, psalms and other religious poems has not ceased to captivate the imagination … span of his academic career to researching Rossi’s life and work. With a tongue in cheek, Seroussi’s essay …
Moshe "Musa" Berlin
… played in varied Jewish events such as weddings but also in religious events in the Jewish denominations and … in mount Meron is one of the most important projects in his life. One of his latest projects is the album Niggun … daughter, Odeleya Berlin . A detailed description of his life and work exists in Yaakov Mazor’s book: The Klezmer …
El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… Maghrebi and colonial Europeans, this recording brings to life a unique sonic moment that precedes the dissolution of Jewish life in Algeria and the weakening of the venerable Western … published in 1856) the main late-19th century compendium of religious Hebrew poetry from Western Algeria. As with many …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… the same time, he became active in the Bnei Akiva (national religious) youth movement not only as a leader but also as a … school will reverberate throughout the rest of his life. The strong antisemitic atmosphere that reigned in … the fabric of the new society. His ties to the national religious movement and his musical and musicological …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… with biblical cantillation, prayers and piyyutim (songs of religious content) for Sabbaths, Holydays and life cycle events recorded in 1913 in Ottoman Palestine from … now the accuracy of Idelsohn's version and brings to life the changes that occurred in the process of …