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A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… Refki (1922-2007). The song is attributed to the Syrian composer Abdel Ghani al-Sheikh (1900-1970). However, it … They were joined in the performance by a new generation of Israeli-born and Israeli-educated Moroccan Jews, the offspring of a still …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… Collection of Gratz College in Philadelphia shows that the composer knew the nign as a 'Chabad Melodie' (see Figure … century, becoming an emblematic signifier of modern Israeli culture. As Mazor has shown in his groundbreaking … the first section of this nign is very similar to the Israeli song “Or zaru’a la-tzadiq” (Psalms 97, 11: “Light is …
Moshe Cordova
… Moshe Cordova Composer, singer, ‘ud and piano player Moshe Cordova (b. … Italian monarchy. They named their congregation Comunità Israelitico-Straniera di Rito Spagnuolo-Portoghese di … and Shim’on Uzziel.” This event was transmitted live by the Israeli Radio from the Ohel Moed synagogue, the central and …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… fortune of being set to music by the famous Italian-Jewish composer Salamone Rossi (c. 1570-c. 1630) in his work Has hi … important musical section of the minhag Italian i at the composer’s community in early seventeenth-century Modena. … hazzan Azelio Servi: A quote from the journal Il Vessillo Israelitico LXX/1922 (XIX-XX), 297: PITIGLIANO […] Oltre …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… publication was planned as a collaboration with the late Israeli musicologist of Latvian origin Joachim Braun (Bar … national song Kur bėga Šešupė by the poet Maironis and composer Česlovas Sasnauskas. The Hebrew text is a free … introduction as much as it pertains to Zionism. Scholars of Israeli culture will find this discussion pertinent as it …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… in this text. Indeed, as part of his acerbic approach to Israeli musicology in general and to the work of Avenary in … 1914), viciously remarks that this is 'a fair example of Israeli musical scholarhip.' (ibid., p. 305, note 47) Rather … of Psalm 137 as a polyphonic mini-cantata by the Parisian composer and cantor Samuel Naumbourg. The original …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… with my phone, was my inquiry about one of the most famous composers of pizmonim , Hakham Raphael Taboush … essentially immobile and inaccessible to many, especially Israeli Jews; second, the famous record’s copy on my mobile … to being synthesized with the ideological precepts of the Israeli-Palestinian/Arab conflict. Although aimed at …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… On March 15, 1899, the distinguished scholar, cantor, composer and avid manuscript collector Eduard Birnbaum of … erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , an insert of the … College in Cincinnati. Fast forward to the 1950s. A young Israeli scholar studying in Paris, Israel Adler (1925-2009), …
Yonatan Turgeman
… His dissertation, 'The Science of Song in 'Pre-Academic' Israeli Musicology and the Problem of the Scholar-Composer,' advised by Prof. Ruth HaCohen Pinchover and Prof. …
Moshe Attias
… He came, as do many Moroccan Jewish performing artists and composers, from a family of musicians going back at least to … royalties for his music, instead he began by earning ten Israeli lira per song (he would share some of this with … career Mwijo was, above all, a “hidden treasure” within the Israeli musical scene. Unlike most of his contemporary …