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Joseph Achron
Joseph Achron was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania. His musical…
The Idelsohn Project
Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in the world is “Hava…
Elio Piattelli
Biography by Pasquale Troia
Choirmaster of the Tempio Maggiore (Great Synagogue) in…
A Recovered Voice from the Past
Preface
The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German…
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
Tish-nigunim in the Post-vernacular Era
This study aims to trace the unique…
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
Introduction
It is November 15, 2016 and I am sitting in a car, driving on a mountain…
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
In 1958, on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk…