… Songs for the Year Cycle in our series Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel. …   Mose salió de Misraim   …

… and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … a poor aunt asks the musicians to play her a kazatskele (a wedding dance of Russian origin), even though she is poor … and cannot pay for it. The first part of the melody is of Jewish origin, the latter part is Russian and in keeping …

… the way in which it has been assimilated into Israeli music over a period of generations. The hallmark of personal …

… a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness through music challenged the normative status of …

… A term in use in the European Jewish musical tradition to refer to the different modal types of … or the leader of a service. The research of the traditional music of Nus h ei Hatefila only began after the melodies had …

… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … Song”. For a start, it represents two of the four genres (Jewish, Irish, Italian, and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take … heart of what became Berlin’s true genius and of what was Jewish – or at least ‘Jew-ish’ – about Berlin’s life and …

… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, … and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a …

… for the Ninth of Av among the Sephardic and Oriental Jewish communities. The identity of the author is unknown, … Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim Beinart on the … such as  seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, …