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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 …

Nili Belkind

… conceptualizations of place and space or anchors (emergent) modes of belonging. She has published articles or book …

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 …

Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond

… one sees how the allure of Rossi’s Hebrew compositions to modern scholars impacts the perception of his setting of … endows him with an aura of authenticity valued by modern scholars. Undoubtedly, Rossi composed this text … i at the composer’s community in early seventeenth-century Modena. The cantors he heard probably inspired him, but when …

La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song

… Sephardi songs that have not entered the canon of the modern discography. It also barely survived in the Sephardic … the song and arranged it for choir, in the spirit of the modernist approach to folk songs characteristic of the twentieth-century Bulgarian school of composition. His modern polyphonic arrangement was recorded by the choir …

Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor

… Unger’s biography arguably abandons the “frustrating model” of categorical inclusion or exclusion from Jewishness … his analysis proves otherwise. To avoid essentialist modes of thinking it is necessary to adopt elastic, mutable, … Mahler also straddles the ground between romanticism and modernism and, following the revival of his oeuvre in the …