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Selihot according to Siftei renanot
… challenging “orthodox” visions of Judaism by stressing also cultural values. The uniqueness of Siftei renanot resides in … Organization for the Preservation and Diffusion of the Heritage of the Libyan Jews, 2007). The second version is an …
Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World
… klezmer music squarely within American music studies, cultural studies, and ethnomusicology. Neither a chronology … overlap with, and differ from, the many other contemporary 'heritage' musics based on an assumed connection with a group …
From Shtetl to Swing
… generation of Jewish immigrants, combined their Jewish heritage with the African-American Jazz style, and changed the cultural face of their newly adopted homeland. Director: …
The Epstein Brothers Orchestra: Kings of Freylekh Land
… the Heart' and recipients of the prestigious 1998 National Heritage Award from the US National Endowment for the Arts, … an exciting journey into the American-Jewish musical and cultural experience of the past 100 years. Max Epstein ranks …
Ashkenazic and Italian Liturgy
… a variety of liturgical minhagim (customs) based on the heritage of the Italian, Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews who … the notion of liturgical minhag as a dynamic area of cultural interaction. Ruth HaCohen, Department of …
Avraham Soltes
… of Bergen County, in Tenafly, N.J. He participated in many cultural and educational activities that interpreted Jewish … the threads of Israeli history and culture with its musical heritage and that of Judaism at large. He had an ecumenical …
Efraim Yaakov
… his academic and public career to the preservation and the heritage of Yemen Jewry, and especially to the heritage of Hogeriya, his ancestors' origin. He did much to … but when I say folklore I mean a deep understanding of the cultural subtext, of what lies beneath the surface, and in …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… inner tension between Geshuri’s allegiances to the Hassidic heritage of his family, originating in the frontier with … Jerusalem. La h assidim mizmor appeared as a “literary and cultural journal for religious-folk music of the Hassidim, …
Eliezer S. Abinun
… arrived late in the 16th century. With its vigorous cultural life and vibrant Jewish press, it eventually … was thus able to make a vital contribution to the rich cultural heritage of the London community. His knowledge of Hebrew …
Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… with Tsipora Miron, piano, and was released by the Musical Heritage Society Inc. under the direction of Dr. Michael … and a winner of multiple prizes for poetry. The Musical Heritage released his 4 liturgical cantatas for children … In the 60s he became the Music Director of America-Israel Cultural Foundation in Israel and in the U.S.A. Professor …