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Dan Deutsch
… Dan Deutsch is currently an Azrieli postdoctoral fellow in the Musicology Department at the …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… of Jewishness as a lived experience that entails a flux of religious, national, and cultural configurations. But … These blows of faith are part of the Mahler myth, which relies on history to the extent that it serves to idolize …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… includes another recording of the song, this one by singer Elie Cohen. He recorded a slightly shorter version of La … does not support the audio element. Example 2. La galana , Elie Cohen Here is a comparison of the texts in both recordings: Compagnie Espagnole de Salonique Elie Cohen Sufriendo siempre, siempre, yaré, sufriendo …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… browser does not support the audio element. Rabbi/Cantor Azelio Servi (b. Pitigliano), Holocaust survivor and cantor in … below the tonic on “panekha” (preparation of the end); and melismatic setting of the text (especially Schönheit’s … He based his assessment by comparing Rossi’s setting with Azelio Servi’s version, perhaps because he was unaware of the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… was planned as a collaboration with the late Israeli musicologist of Latvian origin Joachim Braun (Bar Ilan … as much as it pertains to Zionism. Scholars of Israeli culture will find this discussion pertinent as it offers … encounters that are attractive precisely due to their unlikeliness. Analogous representations of unlikely crossover …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… of Av, but also to other penitential liturgies, such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical … Bible contest and in 1964, Hocha went on to win the Israeli Hebrew Bible contest (see above his picture with David … the many meetings of this type characteristic of early Israeli musical ethnography. They rendered precious documents, …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in Berlin, … to non-Western music, most particularly, the music of religious and ethnic communities in British Palestine. In the … and analysis of the liturgical, para-liturgical and non-religious music of the non-European Jewish communities whose …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… perspective. Among the texts he selected was the seli h a “She’eh ne’esar,” a penitential hymn (Avenary … this text. Indeed, as part of his acerbic approach to Israeli musicology in general and to the work of Avenary in … viciously remarks that this is 'a fair example of Israeli musical scholarhip.' (ibid., p. 305, note 47) Rather …
Clara Wenz
… and sound studies, political ethnography, anthropology of religion and relationships between Europe and the Middle … World Symposium, Cairo Egypt, 7-10 January 2019. “Music, Religion and Voice on the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Border” (with Dr. … Paris, France, 19-20 Oct 2018. “History on Rewind: Traveling with an Arab-Jewish Baidaphon Record”, Middle East and …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone is the copy of a 78rpm … [4] Over the course of his life, he, who was blind and relied on a scribe to record his compositions, is said to … immobile and inaccessible to many, especially Israeli Jews; second, the famous record’s copy on my mobile …