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Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… but also to Jews in Russia and Romania, and to all the children of the diaspora [bnei ha-galut] in the Middle East. … his own Gesamtkunstwerk, ‘Yiftah’, as ‘hizzayon negini’ (musical play). Modern Hebrew writers embraced the biblical … plays, plural of ‘hizzayon’] of Israel’s history, with musical accompaniment (i.e., ‘hizzayon negini’), ‘that will …
Craig Taubman
… a singer and composer, known both for his Jewish liturgical music for the synagogue and his popular contemporary music. Taubman studied music at UCLA and moved to Israel and … he played in several bands and ensembles. Later, he wrote a children's album that led to a contract for music writing …
Abraham Salman
… the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a child in Baghdad’s school for blind Jewish children. The school was established in the 1920s and many of the students who showed musical talent were taught to become musicians in order to …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the recordings … in that article. Research of Moroccan Jewish religious music has been largely, if not exclusively, dominated by the … banim, a section of “Emet ve-emunah,” is sung mostly by the children of the congregation as a choir with the rhythmic …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem … and aunts, as women were primary bearers of this lore. Ethnomusicologist Susana Weich-Shahak of the JMRC, who held a … Protectorate in 1956. Alicia, her husband, and their four children arrived in Israel in 1962 and settled in Ashkelon. …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. Purim, Purim Lanu (Ladino … diziendo a los niyetos, The grandmother is telling the grandchildren, alimpiya il puelvo, kantones i loz techos. clean …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … melody identified at all by Generation Z, that of my grandchildren. This is an issue which Kaplan does not … and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take on assumed black music tastes) on which all of Berlin’s early works centred. …
Nili Belkind
… the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University (2014) and is an ethnomusicologist specializing in the Middle East—with a special … mixed-city community centers to Palestinian refugee camp children’s clubs, alternative urban scenes and even a …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness through music challenged the normative status of traditions of old. … is refracted anew through secular prisms and taught to children as part of nonreligious Yiddishist curricula. Its …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Others connect the stories of parents killing their own children to prevent them from being forced to convert to … century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … Such remarks provide little information concerning the music itself, yet they offer valuable insights for the …