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A Nigun on a soff (chassidisch) – A Tune without Ending
In coupling these two Hassidic tunes, nos. 7 and 8 – Lied ohne Worte and A Nigun on 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:…
Mordekhai Seter
… ranging between 12-25 notes, thus creating a non-tonal harmony unique to Seter. Among his late works are Janus …
“Unter dem kinds Wiegele” – Beneath the Baby’s Cradle
Stutschewsky described the Yiddish lullaby as a genre as follows:
Here lies the…
Nahôn libbo is hujire – Whole-heartedly is the fearful believer
נָכוֹן לִבּוֹ אִישׁ הוּא יָרֵא כָּל נְתִיבוֹ מִצְוַת בּוֹרֵא
נֶאֱמַר בּוֹ כָּתוּב…
Music in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah in Northern Africa
… approach. Lavi did not attempt to ensure the conceptual harmony between the two strata of the Zohar - namely the …
Ya'akov Orland
Yaacob Orland was born in 1914 in Tetiev, Ukraine, to Eliezer and Batya Orland. At age…
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… University Press, 2010), 43-55, 94-108 and Lynn Sargeant, Harmony and Discord: Music and the Transformation of Russian …
Ashkenazic and Italian Liturgy
Ashkenazic and Italian Liturgy
Chair: Eliyahu Schleifer
Sharon Bernstein, Cantor…