… father took advantage of a new law mandating that Jewish students attending public school would be except from … Jewish and secular music. The initial performances of these musical theater pieces created movement to establish a … five years of his life involved in promoting the growing culture of Yiddish literature and theater.   Click here to …

… Arabic literature and poetry to augment his education at a Jewish school in Baghdad.  We hear a familiar story: Shibith was requested to complete a performance at a Jewish club one evening when al-Qundarji became too … in Iraq and Israel: Instrumental  Improvisation and Culture Change and watch his YouTube videos on the Music For …

… circumstances in which Imber’s poem was shaped and the musical contrafactum (adaption of a preexisting melody to a … Studying Hatikvah shows how a distinct Zionist music culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its …

… his father Aba Pilderwasser. Weisser began his formal musical education with the local hazzan of Novata Ushitsa, … and from 1939-1940 he served as the president of the Jewish Ministers Cantors Association of America. In addition, he was an active member of the Society of Jewish Composers. Weisser's compositional output is …

… Beregovski, Evreiskie narodnye napevy bez slov [ Jewish Tunes without Words , 1946]: This research was … 1999   Finally, a facsimile of this original 1946 musical notation accompanied by Beregovski’s own comments to … century, becoming an emblematic signifier of modern Israeli culture. As Mazor has shown in his groundbreaking study, …

… development against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises … language like pentatonics, but uses a strongly profiled Jewish prayer mode whose foremost characteristic is a stock …

… is a Rabbi, composer, and spiritual leader in the liberal Jewish denominations in the USA. She was ordained as a Rabbi … From that, Gold's definition of chanting: the musical and rhythmic repetition of a sacred phrase from a … The Eshet Hazon [‘Woman of Vision’] Ceremony.  Jewish Culture and History 8.3 (2006): 62-86.‏   The picture was …

… children'), and soon began organising Yung Vilne, a secular Jewish writing collective whose other members … imprisonment in the Vilna Ghetto, where he helped hide Jewish cultural works with Sutzkever as part of the Paper … hidden cultural works and founded the first post-Holocaust Jewish museum in Europe; he quickly became disenchanted with …

… is known about Yankele Hershkowitz’s personal life, his musical contribution to the cultural life of the Lodz ghetto … he became active in the cultural affairs of the city’s Jewish community. Hershkowitz was deeply saddened by the …

… at the H.L. Miller Cantorial School and the College of Jewish Music of the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. He was a founding … Voice.” He also served as president of the Cantors and Jewish Ministers Association of New England.  Shanok …