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Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… version effectively authorized by Berlin himself, had appeared during his earliest phase of fame in 1925, but Berlin … the younger the respondent. The only song that scored 100% was, inevitably, “White Christmas” — and, more … American songs – songs whose appeal could extend across the many components of American society. As scholars …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Jewish items in Melngailis’s collection, which were considered lost, were retrieved by Karnes (apparently only … the first collection of folk song texts in Yiddish appeared (Marek and Ginzburg 1901). “Yiddish was widely spoken by … dance” by a Latvian performer, are probably instances of cross-over from Jewish music rather than towards it. [3] …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… the Talmud, Halacha and Zohar. At the same time, he acquired general education in a state school. From 1947 to 1950, … Jerusalem. He sang in a variety of languages and styles, sacred and secular in Neo-Aramaic (the vernacular language of … innovation, the result of recent displacements, liturgical crosspollination and homogenization taking place in …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Berlin-born Edith Gerson-Kiwi (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied … Jewish society. Despite her significant contributions across many musical areas and disciplines, a critical … 1992, most of Edith Gerson-Kiwi's extensive estate was acquired by the European Center for Jewish Music (EZJM) in …
Clara Wenz
… Volkes (German National Academic Foundation), 2016-2019 Mildred Loss Studentship, Jewish Music Institute (JMI), SOAS, … Africa and Performing al-Andalus: Music and Nostalgia across the Mediterranean” (Review), Ethnomusicology Forum 25 …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… interpretation. Today, the famous record is carefully stored in the shelves of the Lebanese Foundation for Arab Music … according to these musical forms and/or combined Hebrew sacred and poetic texts with melodies from pre-existing popular … but also render it evidence of a historical landscape of cross-territorial and Arab-Jewish musical exchange. This …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… on these unique days of social confinement generously shared with me their resources and knowledge: Dr. Gila Flam … Jewish songs in Yiddish conceived in America rapidly crossed the ocean back to the lands from where the poets and … to Eastern Europe. Political tactics and pamphlets pioneered by the immigrant socialist circles of New York and …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… southern Germany and northern France. However, it also acquired two new layers of meaning. The first was a Jewish … [3] portraying the anti-Jewish persecutions which occurred from 1096 onwards often mention the Binding of Isaac. At … References to the Niggun ‘Akedah We have never come across the indication be-niggun ‘Akedah over an ‘Akedah …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… me a teacher and a research partner, and a figure that inspired great admiration and respect. Extreme humbleness … teacher, archivist and editor. Without any structured institutional support, Rabbi Meir, as he was known among … Archive of the National Library of Israel . Rabbi Atiya crossed the boundaries between “the field” and “academia,” …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… common phrases facilitates comparison between the modes. Paired comparisons are especially revealing; they show … each mode into relief. Section 10 explores a single phrase across the six modes, and it corroborates ideas introduced … My way is hid from the Lord / And by my God my cause is ignored). [10] Example 1b arranges the verse in four lines to …