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Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… volunteer in Meseret , a center that supported traditional Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and music. The neighborhood had grown around an absorption … university was supportive of my wish to conduct independent research among the Beta Israel community in Israel. In 1989, …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … were lost forever during the Nazi era and the Shoah. As a research strategy, however, this “decline” is often …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of … has attracted the attention of musicians and scholars of Jewish music ever since they resurfaced in the aftermath of … this day, three decades after it started. The Jewish Music Research Centre (JMRC) is one of the institutions that has …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… means of communication capable of surmounting estrangement. Music and music making was an area of cultural expression in which the Jewish-Muslim encounter was intense. Shared Muslim-Jewish … 1172/2024), we begin a new chapter of multidisciplinary research into this subject, whose results will benefit …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of Moroccan Jewish folk singer Alicia (Benassayag) Bendayan on Friday, …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras . Syracuse: … Netsky’s Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth Century Jewish Philadelphia (2015) and Walter Zev Feldman’s Klezmer: … corpus of material upon which Rubin and his contemporary researchers relies came about through a generational overlap …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… dedicated to the life and work of cellist, composer, researcher and pedagogue Joachim-Yehoyachin Stutschewsky … we are glad to launch the sixth volume in the Contemporary Jewish Music series, 13 Jewish Folk Tunes, an online …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked … Taqsim , released in the framework of the Jewish Music Research Centre’s Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel …
David Conway
… David Conway is an Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College, and was a Polonsky … Studies in 2019-20. His publications include Jewry in Music: Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… there are many), not showing much in the way of original research, and full of phrases (such as “in all likelihood’’, … early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … Song”. For a start, it represents two of the four genres (Jewish, Irish, Italian, and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take …