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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Jewish musicians affiliated with the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music: Lazare Saminski, who praised … the Latvian language. [2] I thank the Mark Lavry Heritage Society for that information. [3] While Karnes’s edition …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… life-achievements: a woman and a scientist in a patriarchal society in the Middle East, an intellectual interfacing … culture and scholarship and the nascent Israeli Jewish society. Despite her significant contributions across many …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… production, but equally by the processes through which society marks them. [8] The general idea is that a … he writes: Formerly a small but integral part of Syrian society (as they were of Arab society more generally), the Jews now constitute a spectral …
Moshe Attias
… contribution of immigrant Russian “engineers” to Israeli society. Whatever position one assumes in respect to this …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… several editions (from 1946 onwards, by the David Edelstadt Society founded in that city). Neil Levin characterized … trackers from the Ha-hevrah le-haganat ha-tevah (Israel’s Society for the Conservation of Nature).Thus, Edelstadt’s …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Yudisher shtam enjoyed immense popularity in Ashkenazi society, as is evidenced by the relatively large number of … and the popularity of sung texts in Jewish Ashkenazi society over the years—from Niggun ‘Akedah throguh Niggun … Crusade and the Jews . Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society. Cohen, Jeremy. 2004. Sanctifying God’s Name: …

The Reliability of Oral Transmission: The Case of Samaritan Music
… of cultural transmission within a particular society. … 9525 … Oral tradition … Oral transmission … …

The Hasidic Dance-Niggûn - A Study Collection and its Classificatory Analysis
… hasidic music would include all music practiced in hasidic society. By another, and related, definition any music …

Felix Mendelssohn - Gustav Mahler: Two Borderline Cases of German-Jewish Assimilation
… ethnically and religiously quite separate from a society that itself was many faceted in its religious …

Jewish Liturgical Forms in the Falasha Liturgy? A Comparative Study
… first step in the direction of comparative studies. In any society, a Jewish influence may be manifested in certain …