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A Recovered Voice from the Past
… male mind, torn from the contexts of his family and social context, sanctified as a secular saint of Jewish … Zvi Idelsohn, the man and his work in their historical, social and intellectual contexts. James Loeffler A.Z. and … in flies. Finally we reached Motza. How the scenery had changed! A variety of trees grew all around, several houses …

Bazetsens (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… activist in the Hapoel Hamizrachi movement, a religious socialist party within the Zionist movement. A thorough … of Idelsohn was heralded by their personal letter exchange; see Appendix below). Before he perished in the … these figures did not belong to the national religious social circles. However, even a figure coming from the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… by Melngailis ( Zemereshet #2625 ) was recorded with small changes by various interlocutors such as Shulamit Rosenfeld, … in both transcriptions two more times: mm. 3–4 without change, then mm. 5–6 with a higher and open ending. This is … from the in-depth essays on such collections. Analyzing the social and institutional background of each collection, as …
The Western Sephardi Liturgical Tradition as Sung by Abraham Lopes Cardoso
The Western Sephardi Liturgical Tradition as Sung by Abraham Lopes Cardozo. Originally…
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… Folk Songs of the Bulgarian Jews in the Past,” Annual of Social, Cultural and Educational Association of the Jews in … and Arab music in Israel Today , vol.1, pp. 9-26. 1998 “Social functions of the Judeo-Spanish Romancero,” in: …
Book Review: Music’s Making - The Poetry of Music; The Music of Poetry
Cherlin M., Music’s making: The Poetry of Music, the Music of Poetry. SUNY Press,…
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… century. A perception of this decay, the result of the resocialization of the Comtadin Jews into the mainstream of …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… of repertoire and the consequences of migrations and other social dislocations on Jewish liturgical traditions. Before …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… a penny per bottle by my mother. Later on, my mother exchanged this business for a private eatery and I became a …