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Eliyahu Hacohen
… appeared in this blog and each one incorporated original field recordings and visuals related to the modern Hebrew … Hacohen collected throughout his life. Although Hacohen’s work lacked a coherent theoretical framework seeking the contextualization of the modern Hebrew song …

Yiddish Theater: A Love Story
… Peretz Hirschbein's 1916 Yiddish play, Grine Felder (Green Fields). These eight days coincided with the eight days of …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… composer Salamone Rossi (c. 1570-c. 1630) in his work Has hi rim asher lis hlomo . Rossi’s setting of the … first verse. He also chose to set the text in a modal framework that recalls the oral versions. All these factors: … minhag , the Romaniote. We may infer this from yet another field recording, this one carried out by another prominent …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… Yam” (In the Salty Sea), an early-twentieth-century Yiddish workers' song [See also Song of the Month for May 2010 ]. … as it was written for the Bund, the General Union of Jewish Workers in Lithuania, Poland, and Russia (Der Algemeyner … Poland in 1922 in the eighth volume of An-sky’s collected works, as well as in Chana and Joseph Mlotek's 1974 …

A.Z. Idelsohn and the Study of the Traditional Pronunciations of Hebrew (Hebrew)
… A. Z. Idelsohn (1882-1938) is well-known for his pioneering work in the field of Hebrew musicology, primarily for his recording and … of Hebrew Oriental Melodies (1914-1932). Through his work on the liturgy of the aforementioned groups, Idelsohn …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… of Israel . Rabbi Atiya crossed the boundaries between “the field” and “academia,” those two elusive poles of … of Rabbi Atiya’s last public appearances was in the framework of the ‘Oud Festival, on November 11, 2018, in a … without unnecessary clichés. The recognition of his work by his country of birth by no less of a figure than the …

«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… clearest example of these various ideological currents at work comes in the unpublished memoirs of the composer … this strength you may contribute something original in the field of music, something truly worthy.” [24] The same … but it never occured to me that I would work in the field of Jewish music.» M. F. Gnesin, “Ocherk po istorii …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… existing and new archival sources related to the life and work of Idelsohn towards the completion of his biography. It … modern constitution of Jewish music as a bona fide academic field of inquiry continues to attract wide attention. Yet … and walked on foot behind it. We walked over hills and fields, empty of houses and tents. We did not meet a single …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… rich alike, we became all equal. We remained in misery, in fields and barracks. They gave us some tents which blow away … a shirt to wear. With great grief we go to the English for work for three cents a day and for a loaf of bread to eat. … musicians Orit Perlman and Kobi Zarco, based on field recordings by Susana Weich-Shahak. The album includes …