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Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… “Pesah a la mano.” You can hear Flory’s amazing and moving story in her own voice in a 2013 Library of Congress …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… who maintained a living connection to the tradition. History, however, proved her wrong. Starting in the 1990s, in …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… (2015) and Walter Zev Feldman’s Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory (2016). Like those books, New York Klezmer … in eighty-three recordings over a seven-year slice of history, Rubin evinces no loss of exuberance. As he explores … couple of paragraphs each on numerous aspects of klezmer history and performance alongside confirmatory excerpts from …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… Charles Hersch has written an informative and penetrating history of Jews in American jazz music, which should become a … complicated subject. Indeed, nearly everything about the history of Jews and jazz music is difficult to categorize, … of Jewry. Virtually the same problem also plagues the history of jazz. Defining racial conceits also skew jazz …
Arabs - Jews - Music
… least in the intensity that characterized it throughout history, with the rise of the modern national/ethno-religious …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… inspections of the collections.” (Zachary M. Baker, History of the Jewish Collections at the Vernadsky Library in … Prof. Izaly Zemtsovsky provided another angle to the story of the “discovery” of the Kyiv collection. At the same … is added for the sake of including another version of the story of the Kyiv collection circulating more recently. …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… to integrate them within the narratives of European music history. Such a comprehensive approach does not underestimate … of more general tendencies in Jewish social and cultural history promises to bring fresh insights into long-debated …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… the qessim ’s authority. … Questions about the origins, history and (pre-halakhic) Judaism of Beta Israel had also … groundbreaking Music, Ritual and Falasha History (1986) situated Falasha liturgy and religious … of exclusion and inclusion. … Chapter 1 provides a brief history of Ethiopian Jewry, including scholarly theorizations …
Curt Sachs
… of modern organology (the study of the nature and history of musical instruments), he collaborated with Erich … that can be accessed online. Sachs Curt. World History of the Dance , (Ed. 1963). Biographies: Brown Hoard … a theorist for music museology” in Music’s intellectual history to Blažeković Zdravko, MacKenzie Barbara Dobbs …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… poems (piyyutim) spanning almost a millennium of literary history. This textual mixture creates a sonic tapestry that …