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The Music of the Mountain Jews

… of one of the most remote Jewish communities, the Jews from Daghestan and neighboring areas of eastern Caucasus. … the Soviet period in the Caucasus and among immigrants from that area in Israel, as well as older recordings from Radio Makhachkala. The book includes musical …

[On] Edwin Seroussi, "Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue Music in Nineteenth-Century Reform Sources from Hamburg : Ancient Tradition in the Dawn of Modernity" (1996)

… Synagogue Music in Nineteenth-Century Reform Sources from Hamburg : Ancient Tradition in the Dawn of Modernity" …

The composer was courageous, but not as much as in myth.

… In summer 1948, Sostakovic composed the song cycle (From Jewish folk poetry), his first major work in the …

The practice of music as an expression of religious philosophy among the East-Ashkenazi Jews

… not really separate. For instance, melody is inseparable from text, and text is inconceivable without its melody. Similarly, meaning is not separable from a transcendental state, and neither meaning nor religious state is separable from the actual performance of the text with melody. Thus, …