Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy

Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy

Author: Lynette Bowring

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2022-03

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 0253060087

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Musical culture in Jewish communities in early modern Italy was much more diverse than researchers originally thought. An interdisciplinary reassessment, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy evaluates the social, cultural, political, economic, and religious circumstances that shaped this community, especially in light of the need to recognize individual experiences within minority populations. Contributors draw from rich materials, topics, and approaches as they explore the inherently diverse understandings of music in daily life, the many ways that Jewish communities conceived of music, and the reception of and responses to Jewish musical culture. Highlighting the multifaceted experience of music within Jewish communities, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy sheds new light on the place of music in complex, previously misunderstood environments.


Called to Breakthrough

Called to Breakthrough

Author: Rabbi Kirt A. Schneider

Publisher: Charisma Media

Published: 2021-12-07

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1629999989

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Have you ever quit trusting that God has a plan? This book will inspire you to live boldly for Jesus and recognize how God can use even the difficult times in life to accomplish His purposes. Whether big or small, God will use your difficult seasons to produce more strength, more faith, and perseverance. With raw transparency, Messianic Rabbi Kirt Schneider brings you with him on a heartfelt adventure that led him out from his insulated Jewish upbringing and culture onto the world stage, where he is proclaiming Jesus as Messiah of Israel and Savior of the world. From the lost and broken state he was in when Jesus first appeared to him, to the rejection he experienced from his family and Jewish friends, which resulted in him being forcibly taken to the psychiatric ward of a major hospital as well as held captive by a famous deprogrammer, Rabbi Schneider shares the dramatic journey that revealed his calling. This riveting true story will inspire you to live boldly for Jesus and recognize how God can use even the difficult times in life to accomplish His purposes. God will use your trials, whether big or small, to produce more strength, faith, and perseverance to create a life profoundly marked by the call of Christ. FEATURES AND BENEFITS: Includes full-color photo section


Forbidden Music

Forbidden Music

Author: Michael Haas

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 0300154313

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DIV With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and composers were, by 1933, the principal conveyors of Germany’s historic traditions and the ideals of German culture, the isolation, exile and persecution of Jewish musicians by the Nazis became an act of musical self-mutilation. Michael Haas looks at the actual contribution of Jewish composers in Germany and Austria before 1933, at their increasingly precarious position in Nazi Europe, their forced emigration before and during the war, their ambivalent relationships with their countries of refuge, such as Britain and the United States and their contributions within the radically changed post-war music environment. /div


The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music

The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music

Author: Joshua S. Walden

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-11-19

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1107023459

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A global history of Jewish music from the biblical era to the present day, with chapters by leading international scholars.


Emotions in Jewish Music

Emotions in Jewish Music

Author: Jonathan L. Friedmann

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 2012-02-15

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 0761856765

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Emotions in Jewish Music is an insider’s view of music’s impact on Jewish devotion and identity. Written by cantors who have devoted themselves to the study and execution of Jewish music, the book’s six chapters explore a wide range of musical contexts and encounters. Topics include the spiritual influence of secular Israeli tunes, the use and meaning of traditional synagogue modes, and the changing nature of Jewish worship. The approaches are both personal and scholarly, describing the experiential side of Jewish music in both practical and philosophical terms. Emotions in Jewish Music reveals much about the emotional aspects of Jewish musical expression.


Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New

Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New

Author: Philip V. Bohlman

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2008-11-15

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0226063275

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Tackling the myriad issues raised by Sander Gilman’s provocative opening salvo—”Are Jews Musical?”—this volume’s distinguished contributors present a series of essays that trace the intersections of Jewish history and music from the late nineteenth century to the present. Covering the sacred and the secular, the European and the non-European, and all the arenas where these realms converge, these essays recast the established history of Jewish culture and its influences on modernity. Mitchell Ash explores the relationship of Jewish scientists to modernist artists and musicians, while Edwin Seroussi looks at the creation of Jewish sacred music in nineteenth-century Vienna. Discussing Jewish musicologists in Austria and Germany, Pamela Potter details their contributions to the “science of music” as a modern phenomenon. Kay Kaufman Shelemay investigates European influence in the music of an Ethiopian Jewish community, and Michael P. Steinberg traces the life and works of Charlotte Salomon, whose paintings staged the destruction of the Holocaust. Bolstered by Philip V. Bohlman’s wide-ranging introduction and epilogue, and featuring lush color illustrations and a complementary CD of the period’s music, this volume is a lavish tribute to Jewish contributions to modernity.


Music in Jewish Thought

Music in Jewish Thought

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Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-09-17

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0786455098

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With the nineteenth century came new freedom for European Jews. Enjoying an integration that had been denied since the Middle Ages, they now wrestled with the form and degree of that integration in all areas of their lives, including in their creation, appreciation, and criticism of music. The writings focus on Jewish musicology, biography, historical surveys, secular music and songs performed in the synagogue.


Quotations on Jewish Sacred Music

Quotations on Jewish Sacred Music

Author: Jonathan L. Friedmann

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2011-09-16

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 0761855378

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Quotations on Jewish Sacred Music is a collection of over 700 quotations culled from an array of sources, including rabbinic and theological texts, sociological and anthropological studies, and historical and musicological examinations. The book isdivided into five chapters: What Is Jewish Music?; Spirituality and Prayer; Hazzan-Cantor; Cantillation-Biblical Chant; and Nusach ha-Tefillah-Liturgical Chant. Taken as a whole, these quotations demonstrate both the centrality of music in Jewish religious life and the diversity of thought on the subject. They can be used with profit in sermons, speeches, and papers, and may be read in order or selectively. This is a valuable and easy-to-use reference book for scholars, musicians, synagogue staff, and anyone else seeking concise thoughts on major aspects of Jewish sacred music.


Perspectives on Jewish Music

Perspectives on Jewish Music

Author: Jonathan L. Friedmann

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2009-09-03

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 0739141546

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Perspectives on Jewish Music presents five unique and engaging explorations of Jewish music. Areas covered include self-expression in contemporary Jewish secular music, the rise of popular music in the American synagogue, the theological requirements of the cantor, the role of women in Sephardic music and society, and the personal reflections of a leading figure in American synagogue music. Its wide-ranging topics and disciplinary approaches give evidence for the centrality of music in Jewish religious and secular life, and demonstrate that Jewish music is as diverse as the Jews themselves. From these studies, readers will gain an appreciation of both what Jewish music is and what it does. This book will be useful for students, practitioners, and scholars of Jewish secular and religious music and Jewish cultural studies, as well as ethnomusicologists specializing in Jewish or religious music.