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Arbie Orenstein
… works by Ravel, which he discovered in France while on a United States Government Fulbright grant. In 1998 the French …
Karev Yom
… was what he calls “a very big Israeli consciousness in the United States.” Put differently, there was a demand for Israeli …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… exemplifies the elusiveness of the symbols of modern nation-states. From the outset, we note that this is a rare case of … and folk singer born in Pinsk, Byelorussia, who came to the United States in 1891. He recorded the song for the Zonophon … and Richard Tucker. Not only in Western Europe and in the United States was Hatikvah recorded in the earlier days of …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… by those who grew up in specific Zionist circles in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. [1] What drew my attention to …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… and resources that have shaped Jewish music study in the United States, see Cohen 2008. Critical perspectives on Idelsohn’s … War II. Rich ethnographic work on current practices in the United States can be found in Summit 2000 and forthcoming, …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… on the development of liberal liturgical music in the United States and the repertoire and career of Debbie Friedman, …
Tanya Sermer
… performer, and cantor throughout Israel, Canada, and the United States. … Researcher and performer … Tanya Sermer …
Ben-Zion (Yisrael Noach) Kapov-Kagan
… Boleshiviks, Yisrael Noach eventually fled Russia for the United States by using the passport of his brother, Ben-Zion, whose … name he would retain for the remainder of his life. In the United States, he served as hazzan at the Ocean Parkway …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… of the prominent German-Jewish figures in the field to the United States, a narrative developed in which Comparative …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Melngailis’s views during the Nazi occupation of the Baltic States. He quotes Melngailis’s mention of the linguist … to Solomon Shmulewitz (Small) who published the song in the United States as “ A brivele zu mamen ” ('A letter from … no. 428). Could the song have arrived in Latvia from the United States, in either a printed version or a commercial …