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Volume 40, Issue 2

Special Issue: History and Aesthetics of Ashkenazi Jewish Music: ca. 1600-1920

Guest Editors: Walter Zev Feldman


Articles


Ethnogenesis and the Interrelationship of Musical Repertoires Among the Jews of Eastern Europe
by Walter Zev Feldman

The Unique Character of Prayer Chant Among the East European Jews: Part I: System, Practice and Aesthetics—A Preliminary View
by Judit Frigyesi

The Cantor as a National Leader: Thought and Music of Cantor Pinkhas Minkowsky
by Anat Rubinstein

The Folk Song of the Ashkenazim: The Problem of Genre Definition
by Evgenia Khazdan

The Yiddish Wedding Folk Songs of East European Jews: Function, Ethnography, Sociology, Texts, and Music
by Lyudmilla Sholokhova

At the Crossroads: The Early Modern Yiddish Folk Ballad
by Michael Lukin

Musical Fusion and Allusion in the Core and the Transitional Klezmer Repertoires
by Walter Zev Feldman


Reviews


Judit Niran Frigyesi, Writing on Water
reviewed by Jonathan Boyarin


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