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Nahum Nardi
Nahum Nardi was born Nahum Narodietzky in 1901 to a religious-Zionist family in Kiev,…
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… as an Index of Musical Change in Reform Synagogues,” in Sacred Sound and Social Change , eds. Lawrence A. Hoffman …
«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…
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
Asher Shimon Mizrahi was born in the old city of Jerusalem in 1890 to father Yitzhak…
Atah Ehad
… Oneg Shabbat: 'The great poet Bialik, remembering the sacred impressions which the Sabbath had made upon him in …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019…
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
Isaac Eliyahu Navon was born in Adrianpole (today Edirne) on May 17, 1859. His father,…
A Recovered Voice from the Past
Preface
The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German…