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Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… of Jewishness as a lived experience that entails a flux of religious, national, and cultural configurations. But … in Unger’s history: Unger decided to “devote his life to music making” after hearing Mahler’s Lied von der Erde ; he … concerts whose programs revolved mainly around Mahler’s music to the repeated efforts to perform Mahler in Canada. …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take on assumed black music tastes) on which all of Berlin’s early works centred. … friends, throughout his career, were also ethnic (if not religious) Jews. A book in such a series might be reasonably …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… and North African Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew song, which had developed starting in the … patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. Purim, Purim Lanu (Ladino …
Moshe Cordova
… m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … editor of the important collection of Ottoman piyyutim (religious poems), Shirei Israel be-Eretz Haqedem “Songs of … music declined for diverse reasons. The general drop in religious observance and synagogue attendance among Turkish …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… and penetrating history of Jews in American jazz music, which should become a first stop for those wishing to … nearly everything about the history of Jews and jazz music is difficult to categorize, analyze, or even begin to … on the other hand, spoke forcefully about his own Jewish religious faith and practices, including his own bar mitzvah …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… it throughout history, with the rise of national/ethno-religious conflicts that followed the fall of the Ottoman … means of communication capable of surmounting estrangement. Music and music making was an area of cultural expression in … musical genres, modal frameworks and rhythms influenced the religious music of Jews throughout this vast geographical …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … last social processes blurred the distinction between the religious and non-religious spheres of Jewish music-making since late 19 th …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and music. The neighborhood had grown around an absorption … be fired at the kiln and put up for sale, and a traditional music and dance troupe . Also named Meseret , the troupe … and Falasha History (1986) situated Falasha liturgy and religious practices in a broader Ethiopian and Christian …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the recordings … in detail in that article. Research of Moroccan Jewish religious music has been largely, if not exclusively, … Maghrebi) resistance to centripetal forces affecting the religious culture of the Jews from Islamic countries in …
Abraham Salman
… the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a child in Baghdad’s school for blind Jewish … in the 1920s and many of the students who showed musical talent were taught to become musicians in order to … between Abraham Salman and one of the most distinguished religious singers of Israel, Moshe Havusha, singing a …