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The Idelsohn Project
Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in the world is “Hava…
Sounds from the Divine: Religious Musical Instruments in the Ancient Near East
… part of religious acts in most, if not all, known cultures of the ancient as well as the modern world. Musical …
Ya'akov Orland
Yaacob Orland was born in 1914 in Tetiev, Ukraine, to Eliezer and Batya Orland. At age…
A Man from Munkasc: Gypsy Klezmer
Documentary. 58 min.
A Man From Munkacs: Gypsy Klezmer explores the symbiotic…
65. El baile de los falsos (Sida Musafija)
This is a Judeo-Spanish contrafact of an extremely popular dance melody of the early…
The Ala-Instrument: its Identification and Role
… in contemporary Iraq; thus comparisons with other musical cultures from around the world must be made. In making …
Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro…
Doyne (LKT)
… doinas on the basis of the extensive materials of both cultures, has concluded that ‘Jewish doinas do not have any …
Kurt Weill
Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau, Germany in 1900. His father was a cantor and his…