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Music, Muslims and Jews
… have become the subject of growing interest in diverse scholarly fields. The JMRC has addressed this subject …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the…
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… musicians are retiring (Rubin just announced his), and diverse new populations are reinventing the parameters and … especially in the first two chapters, the book mainly traverses a list-like roadmap of the secondary literature, …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… in the country for over two decades. They had not only traversed cultural worlds, but had also suffered a deep loss of …
Moshe Cordova
… Turkey, the practice of Ottoman Hebrew music declined for diverse reasons. The general drop in religious observance and …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… in the Sephardic repertoire, to the point that its first verse also generated a popular adage, “Purim, Purim, Purim … “Pesah a la mano” shows also the porosity between diverse Sephardi literary genres in different languages, …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… which a “single historical subject can open up an entire universe of understanding that otherwise would have remained … which a “single historical subject can open up an entire universe of understanding that otherwise would have remained …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… and shows the elusive modern destiny of old lyrical verses. The verses of La gala na in all their permutations indeed recall …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… in a multidirectional process. Differences between diverse local versions and lineages of transmission … of them only in one. Such a passage is a string of three verses from Psalm 80 which is recited by the cantor before … Bnei Roma or minhag lo’azim . While strings of scattered verses from diverse psalms are a widespread phenomenon in …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… to this volume contextualizes the collection from diverse perspectives, thereby making this a text of value by … the melody transcribed by Melngailis, such as the opening verse in the recording by Rema Samsonov . Binder notates … sources (e,g. the recording by Uzi Meiri ), the first verse begins differently and only the second verse recalls …