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April 9th, 2012
Table of Contents
Modern Israel and the American Jewish Experience
The Eastern European Immigrant Era
American Zionism and the Reform Movement
The Blackstone Memorial: Reform Supporters and American Legitimization
The Kishinev Pogrom: Reform and Other American Responses
Uganda: For ...>
February 6th, 2012
Table of Contents
Part I
The Colonial-Era and the Early Years of the Republic
Sephardi Complexion of Colonial-Era Synagogues
Assertions of Ashkenazi Identity
The Western Sephardi Musical Tradition
The Emergence of American Jewry
Jewish Life and the ...>
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“Anyone who has heard this [music] knows that the faith is true.” Thus was the present Bishop of Rome—also known to the world as Pope Benedict XVI—once moved to remark ...>
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The designations Sephardi (adj.) and Sephardim (n., pl.) are employed herein in their standard, accurate usages to refer specifically to those Jews—and their various regional traditions and customs—who descend from ...>
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Talking about music, the iconoclastic composer and guitarist Frank Zappa once said, is like dancing about architecture.
But how about painting about music?
Painter Ralph Gilbert has a few things to say ...>
May 1st, 2011
In the nearly four-thousand-year-old vineyard of Jewish history, the Yiddish theatrical stage is of relatively recent vintage. Apart from the purimspiel tradition, which probably dates to the medieval period in ...>
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The legendary orchestral bandleader Paul Whiteman, who commissioned George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and premiered it at New York’s Aeolian Hall in 1924 with Gershwin himself at the piano—and who ...>
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Prominent in the late-20th-century litany of nouns whose frequent, permissive but originally careless use as adjectives not only offends grammatic distinction but also jeopardizes meaning (fun and quality spring to ...>
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The intimacy of the human and instrumental voices in the music of this volume resides in great measure in its offerings of conventionally as well as experimentally structured chamber music ...>
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"Classical" Concert Music of American Jewish Experience: The Greatest Surprise?
Of the categories of music contained in the Milken Archive, none is likely, by virtue of its very existence as well as its ...>
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