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Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… and had also laid the foundation for what became known as modern Iraqi music. Most of these musicians moved to Israel … Its development was entwined with ideas and processes of modernization. Warkov focused especially on taqasim —the …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness … both in the Yiddish-speaking world as well as in the modern Hebrew song repertoire in the Land of Israel. I am … religious origins and dimensions. The song shows how in the modern period Jewish cultural memory is refracted anew …
Moshe Attias
… repertoire also reveals some of the ambivalent aspects of modern Moroccan Jewish identity. Religious zeal intertwines with modern secular practices, while rooted musical and textual … ten-line format, was originally set to the tune of its Arab model. In the 1970s, Mwijo often performed abroad and …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… according to the different Turkish makam s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem (Songs of …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… Eduard Birnbaum of Königsberg published a short article modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first … Jewish Music on August 3, 1978, which would launch the very modern phenomenon subsequently labeled the “Jewish Baroque.” … proportions and contextualize it as a phenomenon of Jewish modernity’s drive to create a “normative” historical Jewish …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… they imply not only the dissociation of those living in the modern state of Israel from the historical landscape from … legacy of the Nahda as a project of a distinctively Arab modernity (Shannon 2006, 58-66; see also Hanssen & Weiss … Teppich: das Medium Schellackplatte im Kontext von Modernisierung und Nationalismus im Iran . Hildesheim: …
Stefanie Mockert
… in which framework she contributed a study on the early modern community in Munich “Musical Transformation of …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… corresponds to the poetic stanza.” This compositional model originated in Al-Andalus, and stems from the adoption … to a rapid diffusion of Jewish liturgical melodies in the modern era. Gershon Efros in his Cantorial Anthology (vol. … liturgy (1932, no. 211). This melody is in a different mode, freygish . Indeed Idelsohn included it under the …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… mostly known in the Sephardic communities of Italy (Venice, Modena, Livorno) since the early seventeenth century, and …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… will be shown below) and are presented to the reader in a modern, annotated edition. A lengthy introduction provides … (Burstyn 2015/16). Indeed, scholars have claimed that modern Hebrew songs were intentionally composed in imagined … and express the return to the ancestral land. Karnes’s model proposes that songs transmitted orally by …