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Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… inspections of the collections.” (Zachary M. Baker, History of the Jewish Collections at the Vernadsky Library in … Prof. Izaly Zemtsovsky provided another angle to the story of the “discovery” of the Kyiv collection. At the same … is added for the sake of including another version of the story of the Kyiv collection circulating more recently. …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… least in the intensity that characterized it throughout history, with the rise of national/ethno-religious conflicts …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… (2015) and Walter Zev Feldman’s Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory (2016). Like those books, New York Klezmer … in eighty-three recordings over a seven-year slice of history, Rubin evinces no loss of exuberance. As he explores … couple of paragraphs each on numerous aspects of klezmer history and performance alongside confirmatory excerpts from …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… Charles Hersch has written an informative and penetrating history of Jews in American jazz music, which should become a … complicated subject. Indeed, nearly everything about the history of Jews and jazz music is difficult to categorize, … of Jewry. Virtually the same problem also plagues the history of jazz. Defining racial conceits also skew jazz …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… who maintained a living connection to the tradition. History, however, proved her wrong. Starting in the 1990s, in …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… “Pesah a la mano.” You can hear Flory’s amazing and moving story in her own voice in a 2013 Library of Congress …
Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… Hanukkah, in video lecture format, reveals the fascinating story of the well-known Maoz Tsur . This lecture, originally …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… November 25, 2020. https://robertgreenbergmusic.com/music-history-monday-the-melody-lingers-on-irving-berlin/ Hamm, …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… at demonstrating how individuals altered the course of history (“made history”) and how they were affected by it. Yet the concept of … miller — Tesler-Mabé sets out to write a “ contextual history ” [sic.] in which a “single historical subject can …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… life work. The survey also includes a brief general history of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of the … different melodies): The text of this song has a long history and many variants. For a detailed study, see Hazan and … 2003. Echoes of Yesteryear: Reminiscences of Jewish History in the Making: Eretz Yisrael from 1934 to 2000 through …