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Music, Muslims and Jews
… it throughout history, with the rise of national/ethno-religious conflicts that followed the fall of the Ottoman … genres, modal frameworks and rhythms influenced the religious music of Jews throughout this vast geographical …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… to pressures toward homogenization under a burgeoning Israeli national culture, the Judeo-Spanish songs of Alicia’s …
Michael Alexander
… https://religiousstudies.ucr.edu/full-time-faculty/michael-alexander/ … … Associate Professor in Religious Studies … Michael Alexander …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… gateway to scholarly achievement. Similarly, Rubin’s study relies heavily on minute musical detail—including intricate … material upon which Rubin and his contemporary researchers relies came about through a generational overlap between … the fragmentary nature of the recordings, and their unreliability as a comprehensive reflection of the era’s robust …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… on the other hand, spoke forcefully about his own Jewish religious faith and practices, including his own bar mitzvah … Similar racial prejudices also continue to pervade and delimit the historiography of world Jewry, to the exclusion …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… forgotten work, by cellist and researcher Racheli Galay and composer and pianist Amit Weiner. This early … the composition, and an extensive biographical article. Racheli Galay , cello Amit Weiner , piano Recorded at Givat …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… and marginalized by mainstream (Western-oriented) Israeli culture. Only one Israeli institution— the Israeli Broadcast Authority (IBA) —supported an Arabic music …
Moshe Cordova
… monarchy. They named their congregation Comunità Israelitico-Straniera di Rito Spagnuolo-Portoghese di … editor of the important collection of Ottoman piyyutim (religious poems), Shirei Israel be-Eretz Haqedem “Songs of … on September 16, 1951 advertised a live broadcast of the Selihot service by the “best cantors from the Balkan …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… and North African Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew song, which had developed starting in the … occurring in front of our eyes. There is no reason to believe that similar processes of creativity did not take …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… original research, and full of phrases (such as “in all likelihood’’, “perhaps he would have noted” and others) that … was selling to America as a whole, regardless of origin or religion. Indeed, such was its success that it became itself … us much of a feel for Berlin as a “Jewish figure”. The religion clearly meant little or nothing to him; we have no …