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An Institute of Jewish Music in Jerusalem
… ' … We hereby appeal to all Jewish musicians and singers in Jerusalem and in Erez Israel, to … likewise the Jews of Persia and Babylonia, and to all the Jewish musicians and cantors in the entire world, from the …
The Archives of the World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine, 1936-1940, at the Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem
… in Jerusalem institutional tools for the advancement of Jewish music research: Idelsohn's attempt to establish in … the State of Israel, which brought to existence in 1964 the Jewish Music Research Centre at the Hebrew University of … which was most essential to the centre, its contact with musicians and musicologists throughout the world. … 23449 … …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the … one of the most distinguished and long-standing Moroccan musicians in Israel. This short note prepared by JMRC … and died on April 30, 2020. He came, as do many Moroccan Jewish performing artists and composers, from a family of …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long time, was … as elsewhere in the Arab world during the Nahda era, Jewish musicians played an active role in the performance …
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 … Melngailis collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics makes public a forgotten … scales recalls the debate between two prominent Jewish musicians affiliated with the St. Petersburg Society for …
Moshe Cordova
… ma ka m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our … was the move to Istanbul, together with many of the Edirne Jewish community, following the devastation of this city … trajectory is one of many stories of late Ottoman Jewish musicians who found themselves in voluntary exile. The …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked … an eminent scholar of music in the Islamic world and of the Jewish musical traditions within it. Warkov wanted to study … change and acculturation in musical practice, and the Iraqi musicians provided an incredibly rich case study to …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Netsky’s Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth Century Jewish Philadelphia (2015) and Walter Zev Feldman’s Klezmer: … overlap between aging players and enthusiastic young musicians starting around the 1970s. Beginning with an … resource—he offers background on the general history of Jewish-interest instrumental records in the early twentieth …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… Smith, on the other hand, spoke forcefully about his own Jewish religious faith and practices, including his own bar … be considered a Jew? Whose music should be considered a “Jewish” contribution to jazz? Either, both, or neither? … them equally American Jews as they were both equally jazz musicians) we can glimpse once again the normative and …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… making was an area of cultural expression in which the Jewish-Muslim encounter was intense. Shared Muslim-Jewish [musical] spaces (regardless of ethnicities) have … into this subject, whose results will benefit academics, musicians and the wider community. The primary scientist of …