… he regularly went on tour with a small group of assistant singers (m’shor’rim) to sing and lead services in Jewish communities throughout … of the exceptional musical and emotional power of his singing, he attained a degree of fame and stardom comparable …

… events recorded in 1913 in Ottoman Palestine from Jewish singers belonging to Middle Eastern communities living in … and fills in substantial additional information missing in the catalogue. By comparing the information conveyed … starting in the second half of the nineteenth century. A single recording labeled “Ethiopia” poses interesting …

… Charles B. Hersch,  Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity . New York: Routledge, 2017. In Jews and Jazz … Jewish self-exclusion (such as the famous plot of The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson of 1927) white Jews told themselves … still shared by so many. (Hersch spends some time discussing Winton Marsalis’s recent statement that the jazz …

… in late Imperial Russia. [7] We now recognize increasingly that the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires played … illustrious legacy as the grandson of a famous Yiddish folksinger who roamed the streets of Vilna, not to mention his … in 1925. [30] In a late 1920s essay, Gnesin actually singled out the imperial politics of nationality in shaping …

Joseph Achron was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania. His musical…

… collection, Adler engaged in a public relations and fundraising campaign to mobilize institutions and individuals in … of materials and information and collaboration in the processing of the collection. In retrospective, Adler’s … extremely limited. Thanks to an initial successful fundraising to “save” the Kyiv collection Adler established the …

… is a liturgical event that includes four consecutive blessings, the final one being the central blessing officially ending the Sabbath. The ceremony … formula that also appears as an addition to the fourth blessing in the Amidah prayer of the Arvit (evening) service …