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FROM THE EDITORS
 
     Volume XXII includes studies of Jewish Music from around the world.  Authors provide their insight and analysis on Jewish music in England, Algeria, Israel and America.  In our effort to explore a range of Jewish music activities, this volume engages the reader in synagogue music practices in Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions as well as a discussion of biographies of Jewish musicians.
     In her study “Prayer for the People:  The Cultural Anthology of Progressive Anglo-Jewish Liturgical Song,” Rachel Adelstein documents recent practices.  She contextualizes the practices she observes within the history of Anglo traditions in England referencing the main collections of liturgical music in England.  Her approach focuses on looking at the repertoire that is sung at Progressive synagogues as an anthology of their history.  Situating the practice of congregations as a multi-layered concept of “homelands,” Adelstein effectively decenters one particular locale noting the range of musical influences from Western Europe and America.
     “Music-Accents Relations in Biblical Cantillation: The Tradition of Algiers” by Emmanuel Aïm focuses on the disjunctive accents that have syntactical pauses.  Analyzing the Shabbat and weekday reading contexts, Aïm describes the underpinning of the fundamental aesthetic of the Algerian cantillation tradition.  With limited prior scholarship on this topic, Aïm bases his work on recordings and published studies with musical transcriptions.  The musical analysis of cantillation of several Torah readers in this study provides evidence that some accents (sof aliya, tarha and yetiv) vary due to their grammatical position.  The qadmaaccent has a more significant function for Algerian Torah readers.  The author notes that there are individual interpretations of accents within a common range.  Aïm thus articulates the shortest melodic phrases for high level accents (I and II) will have limited to no embellishments with an increasing frequency of more ornate phrases with lower level accents (III and IV).  Thus, Aïm shows a range of practice of Algerian cantillation with commonalities and individual interpretation.
     “Arab Musical Culture in a Jewish Liturgy: the Arab Maqam as a Central Component in the Jerusalem-Sephardi Liturgy” by Essica Marks focuses on present day practices in Israel.  Viewing various synagogues and individuals in Israel that are part of the Jerusalem-Sephardi tradition, a designation of a Sephardi-Mizrahi demographic in Israel, Marks focuses on a central musical element in prayer, Maqam [Arab modes].  She draws from work with Cantors Abraham Caspi and Ezra Barne’a.  She describes the Maqamat [plural] used for Sabbath services and describes the interrelationships of Maqam to improvisation and modulation.  Melodies sung in synagogue are drawn from popular Arab music throughout the Twentieth Century.  Marks comments on how these close-knit communities maintain this practice.
     “A Colloquy of Jewish Studies, Music, and Biography” by Lily E. Hirsch and Amy Lynn Wlodarski, is a written version from a session at the Jewish Studies and Music Panel held at the American Musicological Society Conference in Rochester, NY AMS Nov 9, 2017.  Hirsch and Wlodarski serve as moderators and participants in a discussion of active and prolific musicologists: Howard Pollack, David Josephson, Evan Rapport and Ralph P. Locke.  Each scholar views their research and that of others in a discussion of how their own position as Jews or non-Jews impacts the research of Jewish composers and musicians.  Amy Beal provides concluding remarks reflecting on the new arenas of topics and approaches to uncover new insights.
     This issue of Musica Judaica covers a range of topics and approaches and encourages our readers to learn new contexts of Jewish music.  So too the book review section draws from a range of topics and scholars working in American, Europe and Israel.  The book reviews published first appeared in Musica Judaica Online Reviews.
Arbie Orenstein and Mark Kligman


MUSICA JUDAICA
The Journal of the American Society for Jewish Music
 
Volume XXII                                                                                              5779/2018-2019
 
President’s Greetings                                                                                                      v
 
From the Editors                                                                                                           viii
 
Prayer of the People: The Cultural Anthology of 
Progressive Anglo-Jewish Liturgical Song
                                                                                                         Rachel Adelstein     1
 
Music-Accent Relations in Biblical Cantillation: 
The Tradition of Algiers
                                                                                                          Emmanuel Aïm     31
 
Arab Musical Culture in a Jewish Liturgy: The Arab Maqam as a Central Component in the Jerusalem-Sephardi Liturgy
                                                                                                             Essica Marks     65
 
A Colloquy on Jewish Studies, Music, and Biography
                                                      Lily E. Hirsch and Amy Wlodarski, Moderators    87
 
(Papers from a session of the Jewish Studies and Music Panel held at the American Musicological Society Conference in Rochester, NY on November 9, 2017)
 
   * Jewish Subjects and the Biographical Enterprise.               Howard Pollack     89
   * Jewish Identity and the Flight of Music Scholars  from Fascist Europe
                                                                                                     David Josephson      92
  * Personal Entanglement in the Writing of Biography                Lily E. Hirsch      99
   * The Composer as Secular Jew: George Rochberg    Amy Lynn Wlodarski     103
   * Repertoire and the Lives of Jewish Professional  Musicians:
         Ezro Malakov from Uzbekistan and 
Al Drootin from Volhynia
                                                                                                          
Evan Rapport     109
   * Silence, Circumlocution, Honest Words – with  Remarks from Copland (1972)
                                                                                                        Ralph P. Locke     116
   * Filling in the Gaps: Some Concluding Thoughts on Music History
        and  Biography
                                                                          Amy C. Beal     132
 
The Jewish Music Forum Listing of Events from
Seasons 2011-12 to 2018-19                                                                                       136
 
Musica Judaica Online Reviews                                                                                154

Tamar Barzel
. New York Noise: Radical Jewish Music and the Downtown Scene. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2015. ISBN 9780253015570. Jeff Janeczko    155
David Brodbeck. Defining Deutschtum: Political Ideology,  German Identity, and Music-Critical Discourse in Liberal Vienna, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 
ISBN 9780199362707.
 
Fritz Trümpi; translated by Kenneth Kronenberg. The Political Orchestra: the Vienna and Berlin  Philharmonics during the Third Reich, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. ISBN 9780226251424.
                                                                                                       Erol Koymen         162

Jeffrey Summit. 
Singing God’s Words:  The Performance of Biblical Chant in 
Contemporary Judaism. Oxford: 
Oxford University Press, 2016.
                                                                                                Lauren E. Osborne      168 
 
Rachel S. Harris and Ranen Omer-Sherman, Eds.  Narratives of Dissent: War in Contemporary Israeli Arts and Culture. Detroit, MI: Wayne State Press, 2012.

Amy Lynn Wlodarski. Musical Witness and  Holocaust Representation. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
                                                                                             Samantha M. Cooper      176

Sarah M. Ross. 
A Season of Singing:  Creating Feminist Jewish Music in the United States.Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2016.
                                                                                                    Rachel Adelstein      181

Raffi Ben-Moshe.
 Experiencing Devekut:  The Contemplative Niggun of Habad in Israel. 
Yuval Music Series 11. Jerusalem: 
Jewish Music Research Centre, 2015.
                                                                                                           Gordon Dale      184

Ruth F. Davis, Ed. 
Robert Lachmann,  The “Oriental Music” Broadcasts, 1936–1937: 
A Musical Ethnography of Mandatory Palestine. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, Inc, 2013.
                                                                                               Michael A. Figueroa      189
 
Emil Kroiter, accordion, composer-arranger.  Klezmer Shpil. with Arkady Goldenshtein, clarinet. Israel: OR-TAV Music Publications/Klezmerhouse, 
2007. compact disc.
                                                                                              Jorden Gertler-Jaffe      193

Aron Rodrigue and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Eds, 
A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi. Translation, 
Transliteration, and Glossary by Isaac Jerusalmi. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012.
                                                                                                      Kathleen Wiens      197

Lily E. Hirsch
. A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany:  Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010.
                                                                                                   Barbara Milewski      201

Josh Kun, ed. The Song is Not the Same:  Jews and American Popular Music.  Vol. 8 
of The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review,
Bruce Zuckerman and Lisa Ansell, eds.
                                                                                                            Gabriel Solis     205

Philip Lambert. 
To Broadway, To Life!  The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick. 
New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
 
Stewart F. Lane Jews on Broadway: An Historical  Survey of Performers, Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists and Producers. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011.
                                                                                                        Alisa Solomon      210

The Milken Archive of Jewish Music: 
The American Experience Vol. XVI: 
Heroes and Heroines: Jewish Opera
                                                                                                    Jeffrey Shandler      216

Erik Greenburg Anjou. 
The Klezmatics:  On Holy Ground. Seventh Art Releasing 
(106 min), 2010.
Barry Dornfeld & Debora Kodish. Eatala:  A Life in Klezmer. Philadelphia Folklore Project (37 min), 2011.
                                                                                                        Mikel J. Koven      222

K.N. Knittel. 
Seeing Mahler:  Music and the  Language of Antisemitism in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna. Surrey:  Ashgate, 2010.
                                                                                                         Karen Painter      226

Silvia Hamui Sutton (with a prólogo by 
Vanessa Paloma). Cantos judeo-españoles: 
Simbología poética y vision del mundo [‘Judeo-Spanish Songs: Poetic Symbolism 
and Worldview’].  Santa Fe, NM: Gaon Books, 2008. 
                                                                                                           Israel J. Katz      234

Gilbert Levine
. The Pope’s Maestro. San Francisco:  Jossey-Bass, 2010.
                                                                                              John T. Pawlikowski      240
 
Remembering Velvel Pasternak – An Obituary                                                         244                                 
 
Contributors of Articles to This Issue                                                                       251
 
Information for Submitting Articles                                                                           255
 
Membership Form                                                                                                       256


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