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Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… , points out how Berlin completely neutralized both his own cultural background and that of the society he was selling … the imprint of Jewish figures upon [inter alia] … cultural and economic life and the arts and sciences … …
Dan Deutsch
… He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish … focusing on the confluence of musical formations and socio-cultural experiences within the music of German-Jewish …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… and the Worms (1980 [1976]) — which explores popular culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the eyes of a … his title. After all, Unger’s story involves a personal and cultural journey that begins with the emancipated and … experience that entails a flux of religious, national, and cultural configurations. But inasmuch as this biography is …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… The introduction offers English readers a survey of Jewish culture in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, … of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of the cultural life of Jews in Latvia, with emphasis on their … the part of Latvia where many Jews lived) “the language of culture and commerce had been German since the Middle Ages …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… she was also active in the promotion of multi-cultural music programs within the educational system of … musicology and Jewish music, and a mediator between German culture and scholarship and the nascent Israeli Jewish … second half of the 19 th century, music was examined cross-culturally using a variety of experimental methods drawing …
Nili Belkind
… 2021) studies the complex relationship of musical culture to political life in Palestine-Israel. In the … underpinned by the ways in which music is used to culturally assert or reterritorialize spatial and social … the construction of diasporic imaginations (2016; 2024); cultural intimacy across ethnonational conflict (2021); …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… there is a “shortage” of short syllables, making it difficult to fully justify a clear and stable hazaj . The … Pescador. The elegant analysis by Avenary presents difficulties. First among these is the AAB form. Sulzer set the …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… of historical records from the Nahda time, the period of cultural and intellectual “renaissance” that characterized … song’s historical roots (in Aleppo) but its contemporary cultural and socio-political interpretation. Put … ‘ages’ or periods in the thing’s ‘life,’ and what are the cultural markers for them?” (Kopytoff 1986, 66-67). In …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… that musical diversity is the natural state of Jewish culture. Lidarti’s setting was a case exemplifying this … music with Hebrew sacred texts “elevates” Jewish musical culture, and introduced the Jews to the mainstream European … manuscript, arranged this time by Dr. Alon Schab, senior faculty member of the University of Haifa. They included items …