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Abraham Salman
… Abraham Salman (born Shaharabani) was a qanun virtuoso, one of the finest players of this instrument in the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis collection …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Berlin-born Edith Gerson-Kiwi (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… 1. Bavaria/Frankfurt-Main 2. Venizia/Gorizia 3. Province Ashkenazi/Sephardi Ashkenazi/Sephardi Ashkenazi/Sephardi 3 Ashkenazi/Sephardi 4 Baer 1 Baer 2 …
Cross-Repertoire Motifs in Liturgical Music of the Ashkenazi Tradition: An Initial Lay of the Land
… The earlier version, entitled “Cross-Repertoire Motifs in the Liturgical Music of Ashkenazi Tradition,” was presented at the World Congress …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… If you have ever searched for Hatikvah online, you were surely exposed to a barrage of factual and fictional information that, in …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukkah Songs
… 716 … Over the generations Hanukkah has generated a substantial repertoire of songs, some of which have attained an almost universal status, even among …
Kale bazetsen (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT) . The LKT compiles a wide array of source materials that shed light on the …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… the song Hatikvah became the emblematic lyrical signifier of Zionism, other contemporary songs of Hatikvah contented for that spot in the late nineteenth and early twentieth …