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Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… all of his career. He is most closely associated with the Jewish community of Dubno (today in western Ukraine), but … became an acclaimed exponent of Jewish Eastern European culture and tradition. Christians as well as Jews responded … at the Martin Buber Institute of the University of Cologne, Germany. Its objective is to publish the Hebrew text of …
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… בן-נאה, ירון 2008 Jews in the realm of the Sultans: Ottoman Jewish society in the seventeenth century . Tübingen: Mohr … Taurus. Goldberg, Harvey E. | 'גולדברג, הארוי א 2003 Jewish passages: cycles of Jewish life . Berkeley: … Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture, 2006) Pelegrín, Ana | פלגרין, אנה 1996 La flor de …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … far beyond this constricting narrative to recover Jewish culture, economics, politics, and society. Yet something of … as he experienced it across the Baltic region, urban Germany, Ottoman and early British Palestine, Lithuanian …

Portuguese Hatzi Qadish, Amsterdam, 18th century
… Eighteenth-century notated sources of Jewish liturgical music are rare, and the discovery of a new … Hazzan Lopes Cardozo, Irma Robles de Lopes Cardozo, to the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem through the Jewish Music Research Centre. This document is intimately …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… of digital resources have enhanced the study of the Jewish liturgy helping us to make more accurate assessments … against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises … documented in 1724 and 1733) found in South and West Germany, West of the Rhine river (See Image no. 1 ) and in …
Brakha Tzefira
… same year, Tzefira and Nardi began a series of concerts in Germany and other parts of Europe, and Tzefira left her … Tzefira knew from her childhood including Sephardic songs, Jewish songs from Yemen, Persia, and Bukhara, as well as … as Jews in Europe, and the will to take pride in their culture. However, it was also external pressure, coming from …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… , Idelsohn projected into this text his own vision of Jewish history and destiny as well as his take on prophecy … Turgeman A sad rumor arrived that the founder of the Jewish theater in Yiddish, Abraham Goldfaden has died. And … his own self-understanding as a would-be prophet of Hebrew culture. According to Idelsohn, something sparked in the …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… Gözlem Gazetcilik Basin ve Yayin, Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Culture Research Center, 2009. (Book, 5 CDs and DVD) The … connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… Studying Hatikvah shows how a distinct Zionist music culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its … of the struggling surrounding non-Jewish nations, Poland, Germany as well as the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires. …
Elohim Eshala
… exoticism” that captivated at the time the American Jewish audience. It is clear that the voices of Shoshana … These instruments are not characteristic of the Yemenite Jewish tradition and betray the encounter of Dahiyani with … song represents a totally different development in Israeli culture, one taking place from the 1960s onwards in the …