… composed by R. Yehuda ben Shmuel ibn Abbas (circa 12th century), describing the story of the binding of Isaac. …

… Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common source, … exemplifying this hypothesis. The score, based on an 18th century manuscript that Birnbaum had copied during his 1887 … Driven by a nationalist-oriented agenda to constitute a history of Jewish music in Europe which would resonate with …

… Institut de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and musical studies. During his thirteen-year sojourn … in certain Western European Jewish communities prior to the 19th century, published a few years later as La pratique musicale …

… of our song as early as the first half of the 18th century: Venice, with its history of Hebrew printing presses and trade; and the … connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s …

… genre that developed in Morocco beginning in the 9th century. In reality, it is a symphony in which every … Génini, who has been exploring various aspects of the life, history, and culture of her birthplace Morocco for nearly … Berber, Arab, Andalusian, and later, Christian and Jewish liturgical music in Spain. She documents performances …

… the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, the composer Solomon Rosowsky published a … in which he recalled a joke from his student days a half century earlier: [1]  “Why are there so many Jewish students … Empire Jews: Jewish Nationalism and Acculturation in 19th and Early 20th Century Russia (Bloomington: Slavica …

… viz., 'The Songs of Solomon,' marks a milestone in the history of sacred music as the first and, until the nineteenth century, practically only collection of religious works by a Jewish composer of art music. They were written for various …

… destructive in scale, the fire came as a great blow to the Jewish community living in Saloniki at the time. The fire … the death camps. Jewish Saloniki: A Brief Survey The Jewish history in Saloniki is essentially comprised of a few … Saloniki is considered to be one of a number of twentieth-century coplas , a form that offers poetic commentary on …

… unfailing efforts to the documentation and study of the Jewish traditions of Bulgaria. Although his publications on … to Bulgaria in 1875 from Kishinev and according to family history, he lived earlier on in small shtetls near Odessa. … who settled there in the aftermath of the late 15th century expulsions from the Iberian Peninsula. Sephardic …

… part of the Ottoman Empire) in the last third of the 16th century, is one of the most popular among them. Around 1614, … to serve as hazzan (cantor) of the flourishing Portuguese Jewish community. In this city, he taught the Oriental … as a refrain between the stanzas. The text displays the history of the injunction imposed on the Jews of Persia and …