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Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He continued … in 1906. In Jerusalem, he began working as a cantor and music teacher at the Hebrew Teacher’s college. Idelsohn was … and embarked on a massive project to record their unique musical and linguistic traditions. To his end, Idelsohn was …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… on the basis of German aesthetics, in this case poetic and musical. Dort wo die Zeder also shows how the Zionist … wo die Zeder has been profusely printed with and without musical notation and distributed orally since its original … the twentieth-century. Various attributions of poetic and musical authorship, sometimes contradictory, rendered the …

Yiddish Theater: A Love Story
… Spaisman herself, Shifra Lerer who discusses and plays music of hers and her husband, Ben Zion Vitler, who helped … the language, to the costumes, to the set designs, and the music. Three songs are sung on stage including Hirshbein's …
Moyshelekh Un Shloymelekh (part 1)
… is very clear. Each line is fitted with two bars in the music, and has the same rhythmic pattern (except the fifth line). The last line is repeated with different music, the repeat serves as coda. If we take the repetition … children song ought to be. But despite its catchiness, the music maintains the beautiful and nostalgic air of Bialik's …

Kutner (LKT)
… and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … or refer to the term in question. It also indicates whether musical notation or sound recordings are included in the … that he was a real sport, that he could afford to pay the musicians a long dance all by himself. The dance was a kind …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras . Syracuse: … trilogy of sorts, alongside Hankus Netsky’s Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth Century Jewish Philadelphia (2015) and Walter Zev Feldman’s Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory (2016). Like those books, New …

Yemenite Qasīd Songs (Hebrew)
… and they provided entertainment through their content and music. The qasid were sung at the end of parties, once the … published here, with Hebrew translation and apparatus. The musical treatment of the same qasid , performed by Zecharia …
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 … of the stanzas are concerned with the restoration of the Temple in Jerusalem and of the Messianic era. Two of these …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… men's songs (including liturgical and para-liturgical music). The repertoire also deals with themes that reflect … life, as well as material and corporeal subjects. [1] The music in these songs reflects the feelings and state of the … two stanzas) with each line consisting of two hemistiches. Musically, each textual line is accompanied by a melodic …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared … Rabinovitz and he took upon himself to teach me the music theory and voice training. Yiska’s memoire: [3a] He … sounded beautiful to me, loved singing and had a very good musical memory, excellent for remembering melodies that he …