… playing in 2010 and are a self-proclaimed ‘100% Trans Jewish band.’ One definition to the term transgender can be … other genres, punk music, polkas, cantorial singing, and Jewish melodies (including direct musical quotes from traditional Jewish melodies such as Chad Gadya , Ma'oz Tzur, and Al …

A unique genre in the Sephardic Jews musical tradition. Lyric songs, structured mostly…

… Forgotten Conductor: Heinz Unger and His Search for Jewish Meaning, 1895−1965 . Toronto: University of Toronto … Forgotten Conductor: Heinz Unger and His Search for Jewish Meaning ,  1895−1965  seems to question this … his title. After all, Unger’s story involves a personal and cultural journey that begins with the emancipated and …

… known as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which originated among the Jewish communities scattered throughout the Ottoman Empire … transition took place as part of a number of historical, cultural, and historical processes which occurred over the … only on Shabbat. The practice of singing the baqqashot in groups seems to have originated in Sefad among the students …

… distancing of post- Holocaust congregations from the cultural contexts in which Hasidic music originally emerged. … constant migrations, along with marriages between the two groups, generated an awareness of the stylistic differences, … as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is …

… of Nusah Hatefillah as Dominant in Our Era." J ournal of Jewish Music and Liturgy 19: 19-30. Bar-Tal, Daniel, and … Study of the Penitential Poem Adon Haselihot, Sung in the Jewish-Babylonian Tradition in Four Communities." Context … Popular Music 8 (2): 131-141. ‏Herzfeld, Michael. 1997. Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-state . …

… exoticism” that captivated at the time the American Jewish audience. It is clear that the voices of Shoshana … These instruments are not characteristic of the Yemenite Jewish tradition and betray the encounter of Dahiyani with … songs were embraced and admired by some members of the cultural elite as a desirable component of the new Zionist …

… a rich 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 … dimensions. The song shows how in the modern period Jewish cultural memory is refracted anew through secular prisms and …

… (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish communities. It consists of gatherings that occur … which up to then had been predominant in the Sephardi Jewish liturgy and piyyut singing in the Middle East, went … it more interesting, the participants are divided to two groups, which sit facing each other, and maintain a sort of …