… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the recent passing of … Avigdor Herzog (1922-2022), one of the founders of modern Jewish music research and documentation in Israel, and … was appointed head of the Department of Religious Culture (Tarbut Toranit) of the Ministry of Education and …

… Institut de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and musical studies. During his thirteen-year sojourn … on the diffusion of art music in certain Western European Jewish communities prior to the 19th century, published a … characters, a visual icon symbolically linking Hebrew culture to the mainstream of early Western music history at …

… Directed by Ilan Eldad This film discusses culture in Israel during the 1960s. In it a variety of …

… is popular in the Arab world, but also has connections to Jewish musical contexts and musicians. The lyrics of Hayrana … [7] Joel Beinin, “Layla Murad: Popular Culture and the Politics of Ethnoreligious Identity,” in The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora.  …

Liturgical Musical Memory among the Spanish and Portuguese Jews Chair and introductory…

… collecting and analyzing the liturgical heritage of this Jewish community would lead to its preservation and to … the period closely following the two large waves of the Jewish Ethiopian immigration to Israel and the complete and … ethnography of the daily musical life of the Ethiopian Jewish youth around Israel. Her pathbreaking work is now …

… great significance of the ‘Akedah narrative in Ashkenazi culture, as expressed through the poems that were sung to … Yiẓḥak , or ‘Akedah ) has assumed an important function in Jewish religion and culture since Antiquity. This renowned narrative describes how the first Jewish family (Abraham, Sarah and Isaac) came close to …

… 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … as a scholar is still a major gap in the historiography of Jewish music. Born in Myslowitz, Upper Silesia, then part of … Belarus, and his exposure to the Haskalah and modern German culture that spread to the new Jewish settlements of …

… bar mitzvahs, etc.) and was associated especially with the Jewish resort milieu of the Catskills. The 1970s revival, … in the United States is included. … 101 … 101 … 1-Feb … 3 … Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Newsletter … Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Newsletter … 37607 … … 8 … …

… for Richard Wagner amounts to a shameful form of Jewish self-hatred, while “Parsifal”, far from espousing a …