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The practice of music as an expression of religious philosophy among the East-Ashkenazi Jews
… Special issue on Jewish music Establishing a conceptual framework for the … are established to clarify aspects of East Ashkenazi culture: visual-material, wherein religious ideas and …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … Belarus, and his exposure to the Haskalah and modern German culture that spread to the new Jewish settlements of … childhood in the all-Christian Dańdówka in terms of extreme musical isolation and alienation. Hendel-Malka, Geshuri’s …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Forgotten Conductor: Heinz Unger and His Search for Jewish Meaning, 1895−1965 . Toronto: University of Toronto … and the Worms (1980 [1976]) — which explores popular culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the eyes of a … to Mahler, according to Tesler-Mabé, is not only a musical and personal issue. Mahler, he argues, deeply …

Last Jews in Yemen
… there. In addition to exposing the viewer to the both Jewish and Muslim Yemenites' ways of life, the film also presents different Yemenite Jewish musical traditions as performed in Yemen of the mid 1990s. … Shabazi … Diwan … Operation Magic Carpet … Diasporic Jewish Culture … Last Jews in Yemen …
Judit Frigyesi
… th centuries in Europe and ritual musics of non-Western cultures (with expertise in the music of Béla Bartók and … of full liturgies of services with interviews) of the Jewish tradition recorded in East Europe and the largest … prose and photographs, the experience of the sound of Jewish prayer. … Musicologist … Judit Frigyesi …

Songs of the Jews of the island of Djerba: A comparison between two surveys, Hara Sghira (1929) and Hara Kebira (1976)
… Comparison of a study of the songs of the Hara Kebira (large Jewish quarter) with Robert Lachmann 's study of 30 years earlier of those of the Hara Sghira (small Jewish quarter) reveals that the Jews of Djerba adopted musical traditions common to other societies that served …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel Audio Examples
… Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited … in Iraq and Israel: Instrumental Improvisation and Culture Change .” These CDs are intended to be used alongside the dissertation to demonstrate a variety of musical styles and to bring the musical analysis to life. …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the … A lengthy introduction provides ample historical and musical contexts. Karnes did not spare any effort in trying … The introduction offers English readers a survey of Jewish culture in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, …

Folk Elements in Cultivated Music (Resume)
… his composition, with a comment on the special character of Jewish music in this context. … 3 … Jewish Music Forum … … … 6 … New York … Society for the Advancement of Jewish Musical Culture … … composer … Composers … 7 … 1946 … Folk music … …
‘I’m Sorry, It’s Yom Kippur’: Atonement through Punk (and Traditional Jewish Music)
… playing in 2010 and are a self-proclaimed ‘100% Trans Jewish band.’ One definition to the term transgender can be … cantorial singing, and Jewish melodies (including direct musical quotes from traditional Jewish melodies such as Chad … Warren D. The Passing Game: Querring Jewish American Culture . Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press, 2009. …