… Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great … in the Jewish past. A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern … it across the Baltic region, urban Germany, Ottoman and early British Palestine, Lithuanian Jewish South Africa, and …

… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … Driven by a nationalist-oriented agenda to constitute a history of Jewish music in Europe which would resonate with … which he finished upon his return to Israel in the early 1960s. This thesis was submitted to the Sorbonne and …

… Hatikvah contented for that spot in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Today these songs are only … wo die Zeder was one of those celebrated and widespread early Zionist anthems, as it emerges from the historical … on the basis of German aesthetics, in this case poetic and musical. Dort wo die Zeder also shows how the Zionist …

… borrowed for this play, as was the standard practice in the early Yiddish theater. ‘Flaker, Feirel, Flaker’ crossed the … at the beginning of this article. Goldfarb’s version is clearly taken from the zamelbukh , except that it is … arrived in Palestine and was translated into Hebrew as early as 1900. Later on, in the early 1920s, Kadish Yehuda …

… Hebrew instruction alongside general studies. Wilensky's musical talent emerged at four when he began playing the … Israeli songs. Within the movement was a choir led by the musician Yitzhak Edel, who greatly influenced Wilensky's … that "Wilensky is the enduring composer of the land… His early songs and hymns are embedded in Hebrew culture and are …

… (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He continued … by outside influence and change because of their migratory history and secluded geographical location.  In the … overseer of kosher meat in a non-Jewish butchery.  In my early childhood my parents lived next to the “Chor-schul” …

… Childhood and early musical career Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur (يوسف زعرور) was born … in his homeland and beyond, he was a pivotal figure in the history of the Iraqi maqam, modern Iraqi music and Arab …

… as part of Parashat   Vayera’  (Gen. XVIII:1 – XXII:24), early in the annual cycle of weekly portions, and on the … century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15]  The only implicit written records … This question touches upon an important matter – the history of Jewish worship – which seems to have changed over …

… the death camps. Jewish Saloniki: A Brief Survey The Jewish history in Saloniki is essentially comprised of a few … with them as they migrated, including literary traditions, musical forms and the Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino. The … on historical events and Jewish festivities of the yearly cycle. Susana Weich-Shahak defines the copla as a poem …