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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… spoken by Jews throughout the Baltic provinces” and in Kurland (Courland, the part of Latvia where many Jews lived) “the … 1996). Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, himself born and raised in Kurland, included in his publications many songs he knew …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Israel, Gerson-Kiwi outlined a picture of a Jewish academic landscape in Palestine / Israel that was characterized by great heterogeneity. The old/new land appears as a meeting place of diverse, sometimes …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… prior to the “immigration of Jews from Ashkenaz to Poland in the sixteenth century,” is precarious. …
Clara Wenz
… 25 (3): 373-377. Presentations “Suspicion, Borders and Landscapes Lost to Conflict: My Journey with an Arab-Jewish …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… living in the modern state of Israel from the historical landscape from which the famous record emerged, but also the … Nahda period, but also render it evidence of a historical landscape of cross-territorial and Arab-Jewish musical … that the Arab-Jewish musical exchange facilitated by this landscape of travelling musicians came to an end in the mid …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… of the small but affluent Sephardic community of the Netherlands in the 18th century. Intended for performance on … and paleographer, he uncovered unique music materials in Holland, Italy, France, Great Britain and Germany, not only in … “Esther” score at the University of Cambridge library in England in the late 1990s added the largest known work of …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… Ten Commandments, and the arrival of the Israelites to the land of Canaan. Geographically, our song is found throughout … Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem (Songs of Israel in the Land of the Orient; SHIBA ), published in 1921 by bookseller …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… song “Piramidn.” The song, whose first line is “In dem land fun piramidn,” appears in Samuel Bugatch’s Songs of Our … as well as in the modern Hebrew song repertoire in the Land of Israel. I am grateful to Dr. Neil Levin for his … conceived in America rapidly crossed the ocean back to the lands from where the poets and composers who composed them …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… with the Indication Be-niggun ‘Akedah (Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Cod. Reuchlin 7, 63r ) The second song … the persecution of the Jewish communities in the Rhineland in 1096. It is also considered the first piyyut to … Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland 3: 232–296 (German). Rosenstein, Gerson, ed. 1852. …
Introduction to Idelsohn’s Autobiographical Sketches
… , the journal of the organization of Jewish cantors in Poland; the second, in English, was printed half a year later …