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Moshe Cordova
… m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … editor of the important collection of Ottoman piyyutim (religious poems), Shirei Israel be-Eretz Haqedem “Songs of … music declined for diverse reasons. The general drop in religious observance and synagogue attendance among Turkish …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… and North African Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew song, which had developed starting in the … patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. Purim, Purim Lanu (Ladino …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take on assumed black music tastes) on which all of Berlin’s early works centred. … friends, throughout his career, were also ethnic (if not religious) Jews. A book in such a series might be reasonably …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… of Jewishness as a lived experience that entails a flux of religious, national, and cultural configurations. But … in Unger’s history: Unger decided to “devote his life to music making” after hearing Mahler’s Lied von der Erde ; he … concerts whose programs revolved mainly around Mahler’s music to the repeated efforts to perform Mahler in Canada. …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in Berlin, … music to non-Western music, most particularly, the music of religious and ethnic communities in British Palestine. In … and analysis of the liturgical, para-liturgical and non-religious music of the non-European Jewish communities whose …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new bar in the musicological study of the piyyut . His insights on a … and stable hazaj . The scholarly edition of Ibn Gabirol’s religious poetry ( Shirei qodesh le-rabbi Shlomo ibn …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … sang in Arabic and recordings of them performing Jewish religious hymns in Hebrew are rare. In that regard, the … facilitating musical exchange was the migratory paths of religious students and pilgrims: Egyptian Sheikha Sakina …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… in sections according to the different Turkish makam s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem … to makam Rast places this version in the realm of Turkish music. Secondly, the title clearly delineates its … by Meldola, includes piyyutim and other non-canonical religious texts that could be integrated into the liturgy …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … the ambivalent aspects of modern Moroccan Jewish identity. Religious zeal intertwines with modern secular practices, … As saint veneration was and still is a hallmark of Moroccan religious devotion, hillulot , the yearly celebrations of …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, … which Jewish holydays were reimagined and stripped of their religious origins and dimensions. The song shows how in the … through secular prisms and taught to children as part of nonreligious Yiddishist curricula. Its publication in a …