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German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music (minhag…
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
I spent the summer of 1989 living in a Nazareth Illit (today Nof HaGalil) neighborhood…
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the recent passing of ethnomusicologist…
The Idelsohn Project
Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in the world is “Hava…
11. Alevanta hermosa niña (CES)
A very rare Judeo-Spanish song. The only other known version, a much shorter one, was…
Pizmon al masaot mi-Bagdad ad kever Yehezkel ha-navi.
Pizmon al masaot mi-Bagdad ad kever Yehezkel ha-navi. Song about travels from Baghdad to…
Amen amen shem nora
This is a widespread Sephardi piyyut for Simhat Torah. It was included in the compendium…
A Recovered Voice from the Past
Preface
The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German…
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
This document, in the form of a synoptic table, incorporates three versions of Idelsohn’…
Arrorró, mi alma (Nanas del arrorró)
This widespread lullaby is sung by non-Jews in Spain and in South America, and probably…