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German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… centers as a by product of Jewish urbanization and the rapid emergence of a Jewish bourgeoisie and on the effects … of negotiating subjectivities, especially in periods of rapid social and technological transformation. By perceiving … and choirmasters as well as cantors’ journals and ethnography with the goal of tracing the historical unfolding of …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… to this unique historical repository of sound and ethnographic documentation of Eastern European Jewish music and … at the beginning of the present century on Edison phonographic cylinders. It was thought that it was impossible to …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… with Muslim, Christian and Jewish musicians within a geographical area spanning from Morocco to Iran, and the … the religious music of Jews throughout this vast geographical space. Finally, the project page includes critical …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… remarkable individual. More details regarding Alicia’s biography, including an in-depth analysis of her recorded …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… of the secondary literature, presenting a couple of paragraphs each on numerous aspects of klezmer history and … spectacularly. After 125 pages of a tightly choreographed journey with detailed explanations and diagrams, I … into what it has meant for him to “think in klezmer” (to paraphrase Paul Berliner, who Rubin also cites) as both an …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… of the oral histories as well as the professional historiography, and Hersch is right to seek to dislodge them, if not … also continue to pervade and delimit the historiography of world Jewry, to the exclusion of Jews of color such …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… musical analysis of the composition, and an extensive biographical article. Racheli Galay , cello Amit Weiner , piano …
Moshe Cordova
… least two pieces sung by him appear in the old 78rpm discography, both with his partner in Istanbul, the aforementioned … notes of this concert are attached below. Note: this biography is based on Edwin Seroussi’s lecture titled “Moshe …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… being made, los yaprakis si stan koziendo. The stuffed grape leaves are being baked. Aman, aman, aman, aman Aman , … place in a more remote past as well. On the other hand, the rapid dissemination of “Pesah a la mano” is of course the …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… Press, 2019. If you want a bog-standard show-biz biography of Irving Berlin — chattily written, without … for you. Berlin died in 1989 at the age of 101. A ‘biography’ of sorts by his friend Alexander Woollcott, a version … any more than for Kaplan’s speculation about the photograph of Berlin allegedly aged 13, of which no copy is shown …