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Vibrations

A Memoir

By: David Amram

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David Amram has played and rambled and galloped and staggered through a remarkably broad sweep of American life, experience, and creative struggle. The Boston Globe has described him as "the Renaissance man of American Music." Amram and Jack Kerouac collaborated on the first-ever jazz poetry reading in New York City in 1957 as well as the subsequent legendary film Pull My Daisy in 1959, combining Amram's music with Kerouac's narration. Amram, honored as the first Composer-in-Residence of the New York Philharmonic, has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber works, written two operas, and has collaborated with Leonard Bernstein, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Charles Mingus, Dustin Hoffman, Thelonious Monk, Willie Nelson, Nancy Griffith, Johnny Depp, and more. Vibrations is the story of one boy's adventures growing up on a farm in Pennsylvania, working odd jobs, misfitting in the U.S. Army, barnstorming through Europe with the famous Seventh Army Symphony, exiling in Paris, scuffling on the Lower East Side, day-laboring-often down but never out-finally emerging as a major musical force. With its stage-setting foreword by Douglas Brinkley and a new afterword by Kerouac biographer Audrey Sprenger, this new edition is not to be missed.

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Routledge

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1317249631

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9781317249634

Jewish Law and Contemporary Issues

By: J. David Bleich,Arthur J. Jacobson

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Jewish Law and Contemporary Issues

By: J. David Bleich,Arthur J. Jacobson

This book presents a series of authoritative discussions of the application of Jewish tradition to contemporary social and political issues.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521765471

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9780521765473

Shir Hama'alot l'David (Song of the Steps) and Ktav Hitnazzelut l'Darshanim (In Defense of Preachers)

By: David Darshan

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Shir Hama'alot l'David (Song of the Steps) and Ktav Hitnazzelut l'Darshanim (In Defense of Preachers)

By: David Darshan

David Darshan of Cracow was the first of the itinerant Jewish preachers whose works were published. He was a Renaissance man in a very real sense. Preacher, scholar, artist, healer, scribe, mystic, editor, commentator, and bibliophile (and father of five daughters), he tried in vain to establish an academy but failed because he was on the wrong side of the establishment. He was involved in the reintroduction of the printing of Hebrew books in Poland in 1569. He wrote a commentary on the Jerusalem Talmud, as well as a spirited defense of preaching and the preacher's art, and copied and illustrated a magnificent Kabbalistic manuscript. He wandered through Germany, Bohemia, and Russia; spent time in Italy during the period of the printing of the Zohar and the banning of the Talmud; served as scholar-in-residence at the home of a wealthy Jewish banking family; returned to Cracow to become the town darshan; and set out for Safed to join the community of Kabbalists and await the Messiah. This account of his background and translation of two almost forgotten books, Shir haMa'a lot l'David and Ktav Hitnazzelut l'Darshanim - a collection of sermons, response, poems, model letters to distinguished persons, efforts to fund an academy, a sourcebook for would-be preachers, and a defense of the craft - lifts the curtain on the inner life of the Jewish world in the late Middle Ages. The reproduction of the Hebrew texts of two books that have all but disappeared places a valuable resource in the hands of scholars. The cover illustration for the volume is by David Darshan and appears in the manuscript of Perush hYeri'ah haG'dolah, a commentary on the Ten Spheres, which he copied, illustrated, and signed in Modena in 1556. It depicts Rabbi Akiva, surrounded by the four creatures of Ezekiel's chariot vision, standing between the sketch of the universe and the spherotic tree. The manuscript is evidence of David's skill as scribe and artist.

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Hebrew Union College Press

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0878201521

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9780878201525

Choral-Orchestral Repertoire

A Conductor's Guide

By: Jonathan D. Green,David W. Oertel

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Choral-Orchestral Repertoire

A Conductor's Guide

By: Jonathan D. Green,David W. Oertel

Choral-Orchestral Repertoire: A Conductor’s Guide, Omnibus Edition offers an expansive compilation of choral-orchestral works from 1600 to the present. Synthesizing Jonathan D. Green’s earlier six volumes on this repertoire, this edition updates and adds to the over 750 oratorios, cantatas, choral symphonies, masses, secular works for large and small ensembles, and numerous settings of liturgical and biblical texts for a wide variety of vocal and instrumental combinations. Each entry includes a brief biographical sketch of the composer, approximate duration, text sources, performing forces, available editions, and locations of manuscript materials, as well as descriptive commentary, a discography, and a bibliography. Unique to this edition are practitioner’s evaluations of the performance issues presented in each score. These include the range, tessitura, and nature of each solo role and a determination of the difficulty of the choral and orchestral portions of each composition. There is also a description of the specific challenges, staffing, and rehearsal expectations related to the performance of each work. Choral-Orchestral Repertoire is an essential resource for conductors and students of conducting as they search for repertoire appropriate to their needs and the abilities of their ensembles.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442244674

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9781442244672

Stones Speak - Hebrew Tombstones from Padua, 1529-1862

By: David Malkiel

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Stones Speak - Hebrew Tombstones from Padua, 1529-1862

By: David Malkiel

From Renaissance to Risorgimento, the Hebrew tombstones of Padua express the cultural currents of their age, in text and art. The inscriptions are mainly rhymed and metered poems, about life, love and faith, while the design and ornamentation of the actual stones reflect prevailing architectural and artistic tastes. Additionally, the inscriptions illuminate the society of Padua's Jews, and the social and cultural changes they underwent during the 330 years covered by this study. Thus these tombstones capture the flow of Italian Jewish culture from Renaissance to Baroque, and from the early modern to the modern era.

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BRILL

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9004265341

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9789004265349

The Reformation of the Bible

The Bible of the Reformation

By: Professor Jaroslav Pelikan,Jaroslav Pelikan,Valerie R. Hotchkiss,David Price,Bridwell Library,Rare Book and Manuscript Library (New York),Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.). Houghton Library

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The Reformation of the Bible

The Bible of the Reformation

By: Professor Jaroslav Pelikan,Jaroslav Pelikan,Valerie R. Hotchkiss,David Price,Bridwell Library,Rare Book and Manuscript Library (New York),Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.). Houghton Library

It is equally true that the Reformation was inspired and defined by the Bible and that the Bible was reshaped by the intellectual, political, and cultural forces of the Reformation. In this book, a distinguished scholar--whose contributions to the field of religious studies have won him wide renown--explores this relationship, examining both the role of the Bible in the Reformation and the effect of the Reformation on the text of the Bible, Biblical studies, preaching and exegesis, and European culture in general. Jaroslav Pelikan begins by discussing the philological foundations of the "reformation" of the Biblical text, focusing on the revival of Greek and Hebrew language study and the important contributions to textual criticism by humanist scholars. He then examines the changing patterns of interpretation and communication of the Biblical text, the proliferation of vernacular versions of scripture and their impact on various national cultures, and the impact of the Reformation Bible on art, music, and literature of the period. The book is richly illustrated with examples of early printed editions of Bibles, commentaries, sermons, vernacular translations, and other works with Biblical themes, all of which are identified and discussed. The book serves as the catalog for a major exhibition of early Bibles and Reformation texts that has been organized at Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, and will also be shown at the Yale Center for British Art, the Houghton Library and the Widener Library at Harvard University, and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University.

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Yale University Press

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0300066678

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9780300066678

Let it Go Among Our People

An Illustrated History of the English Bible from John Wyclif to the King James Version

By: David Price,Charles Caldwell Ryrie

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Let it Go Among Our People

An Illustrated History of the English Bible from John Wyclif to the King James Version

By: David Price,Charles Caldwell Ryrie

The King James translators drew upon all of their English predecessors and much more besides. The authors offer both a political and literary history of the Bible. Their purpose is to explain how styles of presenting Scriptures in English developed out of political and ecclesiastical circumstances. The result is a refreshing reassessment of the literary and scholarly accomplishment of all the Renaissance Bibles and a clear account of what is different and distinctive in the King James Version. They also linger over the texts of the Bible, comparing significant passages in the various versions. Such close study of the texts is warranted because the English Bible has had a profound effect on English language, literature, politics and ideas; it has left a lasting impression on the language that we speak today. No other language, except perhaps German, can boast that its vernacular translation of the Bible is a literary masterpiece in its own right.

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James Clarke & Co.

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0718830423

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9780718830427

The Jewish Bible

A Material History

By: David Stern

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The Jewish Bible

A Material History

By: David Stern

In The Jewish Bible: A Material History, David Stern explores the Jewish Bible as a material object—the Bibles that Jews have actually held in their hands—from its beginnings in the Ancient Near Eastern world through to the Middle Ages to the present moment. Drawing on the most recent scholarship on the history of the book, Stern shows how the Bible has been not only a medium for transmitting its text—the word of God—but a physical object with a meaning of its own. That meaning has changed, as the material shape of the Bible has changed, from scroll to codex, and from manuscript to printed book. By tracing the material form of the Torah, Stern demonstrates how the process of these transformations echo the cultural, political, intellectual, religious, and geographic changes of the Jewish community. With tremendous historical range and breadth, this book offers a fresh approach to understanding the Bible’s place and significance in Jewish culture.

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University of Washington Press

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029574149X

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9780295741499

No Sympathy for the Devil

Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism

By: David Ware Stowe

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No Sympathy for the Devil

Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism

By: David Ware Stowe

In this cultural history of evangelical Christianity and popular music, David Stowe demonstrates how mainstream rock of the 1960s and 1970s has influenced conservative evangelical Christianity through the development of Christian pop music. For an earlier

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807834580

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9780807834589

From Maimonides to Microsoft

The Jewish Law of Copyright Since the Birth of Print

By: Neil Netanel,David Nimmer

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From Maimonides to Microsoft

The Jewish Law of Copyright Since the Birth of Print

By: Neil Netanel,David Nimmer

From Maimonides to Microsoft traces the historical development of Jewish copyright law by comparing rabbinic reprinting bans with secular and papal book privileges and by relaying the stories of dramatic disputes among publishers of books of Jewish learning and liturgy.. He describes each dispute in its historical context and examines the rabbinic rulings that sought to resolve it. Remarkably, the rabbinic reprinting bans and copyright rulings address some of the same issues that animate copyright jurisprudence today: Is copyright a property right or just a right to receive fair compensation? How long should copyrights last? What purposes does copyright serve? While Jewish copyright law has borrowed from its secular law counterpart at key junctures, it fashions strikingly different answers to those key questions.

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Oxford University Press

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0195371992

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9780195371994

Planets, Potions, and Parchments

Scientifica Hebraica from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Eighteenth Century

By: B. Barry Levy,Jewish Public Library (Montréal, Québec),David M. Stewart Museum

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Planets, Potions, and Parchments

Scientifica Hebraica from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Eighteenth Century

By: B. Barry Levy,Jewish Public Library (Montréal, Québec),David M. Stewart Museum

Planets, Potions, and Parchments is a heavily illustrated and informative catalogue published in conjunction with a major exhibition of the same name. The exhibition, presented by the Jewish Public Library, runs from May to September at the David M. Stewart Museum in Montreal. Both catalogue and exhibition explore the important yet often neglected Jewish contribution to the history of science.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773507930

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9780773507937

Etched in Stone

The Emergence of the Decalogue

By: David H. Aaron

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Etched in Stone

The Emergence of the Decalogue

By: David H. Aaron

An approach to the questions of when and why the Decalogue texts were written as well as a comprehensive approach to methodological issues that contribute to our understanding of the composition of the Decalogue. >

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A&C Black

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0567027910

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9780567027917

Jewish horticultural schools and training centers in Germany and their impact on horticulture and landscape architecture in Palestine / Israel

By: Irene Aue-Ben-David,Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn

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Jewish horticultural schools and training centers in Germany and their impact on horticulture and landscape architecture in Palestine / Israel

By: Irene Aue-Ben-David,Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn

Volume 27 of the CGL-Studies – “Jewish Horticultural Schools and Training Centers in Germany and their Impact on Horticulture and Landscape Architecrture in Palestine / Israel“ – presents the results of a symposium which was held in September 2016 at the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem, jointly organized by the Leo Baeck Institute, the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning of the Technion, Haifa, and the Center of Garden Art and Landscape Architecture of Leibniz University Hannover. The volume presents four main chapters. The first, „Hachsharot in Context“, deals with the context and changing role of Jewish agricultural training in Germany and Hachsharot in the time of the Nazi dictatorship. In the next chapter, „Perceptions of Nature“, ideas of the Jewish youth movement about nature and landscape and the perceptions of nature among Hachshara members are discussed. „Hachsharot in Germany and Palestine“, the third chapter, presents papers on Jewish horticultural training centers in Germany in the regions of Hannover and Berlin/Brandenburg, as well as on Gross-Gaglow, a cooperative Jewish settlement located near Cottbus, and on Kfar Ruppin and Sde Eliyahu, a secular and a religious Kibbutz in Israel, respectively. The papers in the concluding chapter „Beyond Hachsharot“, deal with the lives and work of female Jewish gardeners and garden architects in Vienna, and with the Ahlem memorial and documentation center, established at the site of the former Israelitische Gartenbauschule Ahlem (Jewish Horticultural School Ahlem) in Hannover.

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Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München AVM

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395477092X

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9783954770922

A Shakespeare Music Catalogue: Volume IV

Indices

By: Bryan N. S. Gooch,David Thatcher

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A Shakespeare Music Catalogue: Volume IV

Indices

By: Bryan N. S. Gooch,David Thatcher

V.1. The catalogue of music, All's well that ends well-Love's labour's lost -- v.2. The catalogue of music, Macbeth-The taming of the shrew -- v.3. The catalo gue of music, The tempest-The two nobel kinsmen, the sonnets ... -- v.4. Indices --v.5. Bibliography.

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Clarendon Press

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0198129440

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9780198129448

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Vibrations

Vibrations

Jewish Law and Contemporary Issues

Jewish Law and Contemporary Issues

Shir Hama'alot l'David (Song of the Steps) and Ktav Hitnazzelut l'Darshanim (In Defense of Preachers)

Shir Hama'alot l'David (Song of the Steps) and Ktav Hitnazzelut l'Darshanim (In Defense of Preachers)

Choral-Orchestral Repertoire

Choral-Orchestral Repertoire

Stones Speak - Hebrew Tombstones from Padua, 1529-1862

Stones Speak - Hebrew Tombstones from Padua, 1529-1862

The Reformation of the Bible

The Reformation of the Bible

Let it Go Among Our People

Let it Go Among Our People

The Jewish Bible

The Jewish Bible

No Sympathy for the Devil

No Sympathy for the Devil

From Maimonides to Microsoft

From Maimonides to Microsoft

Planets, Potions, and Parchments

Planets, Potions, and Parchments

Etched in Stone

Etched in Stone

Jewish horticultural schools and training centers in Germany and their impact on horticulture and landscape architecture in Palestine / Israel

Jewish horticultural schools and training centers in Germany and their impact on horticulture and landscape architecture in Palestine / Israel

A Shakespeare Music Catalogue: Volume IV

A Shakespeare Music Catalogue: Volume IV

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