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Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… 1895−1965 . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. Biographical narratives are often based on the idea of … and cultural configurations. But inasmuch as this biography is underpinned by historical interest, it also aspires … formation and maintenance of Jewish identity”, Unger’s biography arguably abandons the “frustrating model” of …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… songs that have not entered the canon of the modern discography. It also barely survived in the Sephardic oral traditions which were recorded in ethnographic pursuits since the mid-20th century. The song was …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… once the printing press started to produce prayer books in rapidly increasing numbers to satisfy the expanding demand. … allegiance to a Christian source. The melodic and contrapuntal qualities of the opening closely resemble those of … Archive has much to offer Jewish music scholarship. Biography of Salamone Rossi at the JMRC website Song of the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… also includes a brief general history of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of the cultural life of Jews in … NLI; see ex. 1); [8] based on an unpublished mimeographed collection of Ephraim Abileah’s songs I was able to … Hebrew verse to this song was documented in the autobiographical songster of Netiva Ben Yehuda (1990, 112), and it …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… of this type characteristic of early Israeli musical ethnography. They rendered precious documents, but were also marred by misunderstandings stemming from the ethnographic clash between different agendas and frames of mind. … Jewish tradition from Zakho, disregarding the complex biography of the cantor and his musical aspirations. The …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… processing of the estate, we will conduct additional ethnographic research in order to construct an oral history of … of this project will offer a long overdue intellectual biography of Edith Gerson-Kiwi's academic contributions to … and Israeli-German relations. Additional Biographical Information Comprehensive biography by Eliyahu …
Nili Belkind
… life in Palestine-Israel. In the context of the geography of violence that characterizes the conflict, borders … even a checkpoint. In all the contexts presented, the monograph is thematically underpinned by the ways in which music … producer; booker; radio DJ; music writer (National Geographic Music Online, liner notes) and other roles. Two …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… versions, introduction, indices, glossary and bibliography by Dov Yarden, Jerusalem, 1986, vol. 1, pp. 446-7) … melody shows how dissemination via written sources led to a rapid diffusion of Jewish liturgical melodies in the modern …
Clara Wenz
… Eastern music, music and sound studies, political ethnography, anthropology of religion and relationships between …
Stefanie Mockert
… titled “Cantor Emanuel Kirschner (1857-1938) - A Biographical Investigation on German-Jewish Musical …