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The Music of the Mountain Jews
A study of the liturgical and folk music of one of the most remote Jewish communities,…
Salim Shibith (Salim Ha-Cohen)
Salim Shibith (also known as Salim Ha-Cohen) was a qari al-maqam (“maqam reader”) and…
The Music of the Mountain Jews
A study of the liturgical and folk music of one of the most remote Jewish communities,…
Joel Rubin with the Epstein Brothers Orchestra: Zeydes un Eyniklekh
Zeydes un Eyniklekh brings together several generations of American klezmer musicians in…
Ve-Hi She-’Amda – Piyyut from the Passover Haggadah
This piyyut appears in ancient Haggadot and the author is unknown. It addresses how,…
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… not weddings, but rather singing on Sabbaths, when playing instruments was forbidden. Consequently, and although this … the fact that on religious grounds the playing of musical instruments was not permitted on the Sabbath and on … tunes performed vocally on days when playing musical instruments was forbidden. [13] Others penetrated the …
Revisiting a Forgotten Treasure in Philadelphia
The library of Gratz College is very well known among scholars and collectors of Jewish…
Marcus Hast
Born in Praga (near Warsaw). After serving as a cantor in Poland and Germany, he moved…
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
On March 15, 1899, the distinguished scholar, cantor, composer and avid manuscript…