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Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Forgotten Conductor: Heinz Unger and His Search for Jewish Meaning, 1895−1965 . Toronto: University of Toronto … position and was therefore impelled to conduct small community orchestras and later on a provisional orchestra … Mahler: Memories and Letters . Trans. Basil Creighton. London: Time Warner Books. Sacks, Adam J. 2013. “Toward an …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one … in his choir and also enrolled in the conservatory there. London autumn 1900 English version: After a few months I … a school for cantors. He gave me a place in a Bavarian community. Brainin approved my action in becoming untrue to …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its … informs us about the modern crisis of the diasporic Jewish community and its splintering into discrete and often … The entry on Naftali Herz Imber in the Jewish Encylopedia (London, 1901-1906) is a further testimony of how fast the …
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 … רודריג 2000 Sephardi Jewry: a history of the Judeo-Spanish community, 14th-20th centuries . Berkeley: University of … יצחק 1959-1973 Chants judeo-espagnols . 4 vols.: vol. 1, London: World Sephardi Federation, 1959; vols. 2-4, …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukkah Songs
… Within his vast oeuvre there are a handful of songs with Jewish themes, and a few of them are specifically related to Hanukkah. Guthrie himself was not Jewish; however his second wife, Marjorie Mazia Greenblatt, … of Hanukkah-related songs, some for the local Jewish community and some for his children. The themes of the songs …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … in the institutionalization of the music life in the Jewish community of late Ottoman Palestine (Hirschberg 1995, ch. … delivered lectures in Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Vienna and London. In the end, he traveled to New York. In America, he …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… for the Ninth of Av among the Sephardic and Oriental Jewish communities. The identity of the author is unknown, … occasion; source, Hit h adshut: Journal of the Kurdish Community in Israel 2 [1975]). He became well versed in the … avi, avi, avi, yoshevet galmudah, tzo'eket avi' (Amsterdam, London). The refrain is pervasive to the point that cantors …
Chasidic in America
… (as can be found on the track's entry at the Freedman Jewish Sound Archive ) while others to Alexander Olshanetsky … path often caused a rift with the leaders of the Jewish community, as many did not approve of their cantors becoming … as well as contemporary klezmer bands. Most notably Frank London, the famed New York based trumpeter, has performed it …