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Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… , Idelsohn projected into this text his own vision of Jewish history and destiny as well as his take on prophecy … his own Gesamtkunstwerk, ‘Yiftah’, as ‘hizzayon negini’ (musical play). Modern Hebrew writers embraced the biblical … his own self-understanding as a would-be prophet of Hebrew culture. According to Idelsohn, something sparked in the …
Joseph Achron
… was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania . His musical genius became evident early on and at the age of … and Moses Michail Milner , he founded the Society for Jewish Folk Music . Achron's association with these … of Russian and European Jewry. Joseph (Yussl) Achron, Jewish violinist and composer, was born May 1/13, 1886 in …

Chants de sable et d'etoiles - Chants of Sand and Stars
… and utilisation of traditional music in Sephardic Jewish communities - from the Middle East, via America, to Africa. A unique compilation of footage of chazzanot, or Jewish liturgical pieces, from across the Jewish world, and an investigation of its influence on other …
Abyadi Ana
… to the wedding ceremony (usually on the day before) in Jewish communities throughout the Middle East and North … already found in the Bronze Era and they permeated to all cultures in the geographical areas where the henna plant … Jews immigrants in Israel. [4] Abyadi Ana is part of the musical repertoire sung by Moroccan Jewish women to …

Jubal in the Middle Ages
… is that there were various inventors of music in different cultures and periods. The figure of Jubal (Genesis 4:21) … information by motifs from the Apocrypha and Hellenistic Jewish literature, and in apposition to the Greek … of Alfonso X of Castile. … 1 … 1 … 2 … Yuval Studies of The Jewish Music Research Centre … Yuval Studies of The Jewish …

Bloch: Known and Unknown
… was an outcome of a complex response to Wagnerian racial-musical theory via the intermediary of Houston Stuart … relationship to Wagner, in that his expression of the ‘Jewish soul’ and use of Jewish traditional elements, both … a wider phenomenon of negotiation of identities and cultures. Dalia Atlas, Technion, Haifa, Head of The Ernest …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… Latvia (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He … Idelsohn was greatly impacted by the diversity of the Jewish community living in Palestine, and embarked on a massive project to record their unique musical and linguistic traditions. To his end, Idelsohn was …
Sarah Harat
… scholarly education, an unusual feature for young Yemenite Jewish girls at the time. Sarah was exposed to the traditional poetry of the Yemeni Jewish women and to the sacred poetry, the Diwan, performed … henna and wedding events, [ 1 ] and in those occasions her musical skills surfaced already at a young age when she …
Aron Marko Rothmüller
… collection is located at the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and can accessed … and historical information on Rothmüller and his important Jewish cultural organization, Omanut based in Zagreb, and … Marc Lavry showing the networking between Eastern European Jewish composers who settled in British Mandate …
“Unter dem kinds Wiegele” – Beneath the Baby’s Cradle
… kinds wiegele is an original and appropriate opener for a Jewish life-cycle. Quiet, slow-paced, and transparent it … emotions engrained in the modern national rebirth of the Jewish people. Concerned about the album’s reception by the … Stutschewksy archive 3/2/1: 174/4. … Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes … Ashkenazi people … Ashkenazim … Cello - …