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Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… and the Worms (1980 [1976]) — which explores popular culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the eyes of a … to Mahler, according to Tesler-Mabé, is not only a musical and personal issue. Mahler, he argues, deeply affected Unger because he musically expressed a shared German-Jewish experience of …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… from archives around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… A lengthy introduction provides ample historical and musical contexts. Karnes did not spare any effort in trying … The introduction offers English readers a survey of Jewish culture in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, … the cultural life of Jews in Latvia, with emphasis on their musical ecosystem. According to Karnes, folk songs were …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… the preservation and research of these distinctive Jewish musical repertoires. Her activities led to the … universities and colleges, developing a focus on the Jewish musical practices in the Middle East. Significantly, she was … musicology and Jewish music, and a mediator between German culture and scholarship and the nascent Israeli Jewish …
Nili Belkind
… (Routledge 2021) studies the complex relationship of musical culture to political life in Palestine-Israel. In the …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … world during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. In musical terms, the Nahda is associated with the emergence of … land [stomp], forced us out of our homes [stomp], but our culture is something they cannot steal. When we stamp our …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … can be reduced to a common source, Birnbaum proposed that musical diversity is the natural state of Jewish culture. Lidarti’s setting was a case exemplifying this …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… in sections according to the different Turkish makam s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem … Gözlem Gazetcilik Basin ve Yayin, Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Culture Research Center, 2009. (Book, 5 CDs and DVD) The … we find that all variants share a common structure of four musical phrases of relatively equal length, with similar …
Moshe Attias
… was, above all, a “hidden treasure” within the Israeli musical scene. Unlike most of his contemporary Moroccan … Its content is varied in terms of textual genres and musical styles. Yet, one feature remained constant, and it … ethos of the Zionist movement and the Israeli culture that emerged from it. Even when he recorded in …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… great significance of the ‘Akedah narrative in Ashkenazi culture, as expressed through the poems that were sung to … century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … Institute of Religion Another early example of such a musical instruction is found in the book of customs, …