Edwin Seroussi

Biographic Data

ID	161306
NAME	Edwin Seroussi
GIVEN NAMES	Edwin
FAMILY NAME	Seroussi
SIGNATURE	SEROUSSI E
AFFILIATIONS	University of California, Los Angeles
ORCID	0000-0001-5006-1520
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	35
TOTAL CITATIONS	10
AUTHOR COUNT	35
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2025
H-INDEX	1

Gossip, Rumors, Rehabilitation Israel Najara's Shaming Revisited
Edwin SeroussiARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review2025
Gossip and rumor as a source of historical information has occupied scholars from different fields in the humanities and social sciences for several decades. This essay addresses a series of severe accusations against the poet and musician Rabbi Israel Najara (ca. 1550-ca.1625) cast by (or in the name of) Rabbi @Hayim Vital (1543-1620) in his Sefer ha-@hezyonot, a revelatory and deeply personal diary that was not published in its original version…
Staging Hillula: Ariel Bension and Avraham Zvi Idelsohn in early twentieth-century Jerusalem
Edwin Seroussi, James LoefflerARTICLEJournal of Modern Jewish Studies2023References: 3
The writer, Zohar scholar and Zionist activist Ariel Bension (1880–1932) has attracted attention of late from scholars seeking to recover an alternative vision of Zionism with Mizrahi roots in Ottoman Palestine. Yet the instrumentalization of Bension's biography for the politics of identity in present-day Israel has led to a flattening effect whereby Bension is divorced from his manifold ties to European and global Jewish culture. In this article…
Songs That Young Gershom Scholem May Have Heard: Jacob Beimel's Jüdische Melodieen, Jung Juda, and Jewish Musical Predicaments in Early Twentieth-Century Berlin
Edwin Seroussi, Meir Stern et al.ARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review2020
Published in Berlin in 1911 and edited by the Eastern European cantor-composer-musicologist Jacob Beimel (1875–1944), JüdischeMelodieen [sic] is a songster containing music for forty-five songs in German, Yiddish, Hebrew, and Hungarian by a diverse array of composers and poets. It was intended as a musical companion to the Vereinsliederbuchfür Jung-Juda (first published in 1901 without music), the songster of the Zionist-leaning youth movement Ju…
Music in Antiquity: The near East and the Mediterranean
Edwin Seroussi, Joan Goodnick Westenholz et al.BOOKMusic in Antiquity2014
Jewish Cabaret in Exile: New Budapest Orpheum Society. 2009. Cedille Records CDR 90000 110. Produced by James Ginsburg. Annotated by Philip V. Bohlman. 64-page booklet with notes in English and lyrics…
Open AccessEdwin SeroussiARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2012
Popular Music and National Culture in Israel
Motti Regev, Edwin SeroussiBOOKPopular Music and National…2004
A unique Israeli national culture—indeed, the very nature of "Israeliness"—remains a matter of debate, a struggle to blend vying memories and backgrounds, ideologies and wills. Identifying popular music as an important site in this wider cultural endeavor, this book focuses on the three major popular music cultures that are proving instrumental in attempts to invent Israeliness: the invented folk song repertoire known as Shirei Eretz Israel; the …
More on Maimonides on Music
Edwin SeroussiARTICLEZutot2002
In Search of Jewish Musical Antiquity in the 18th-Century Venetian Ghetto: Reconsidering the Hebrew Melodies in Benedetto Marcello's Estro poetico-armonico
Edwin SeroussiARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review2002
Ten of the fifty Psalm settings comprising the Estro poetico-armonico by Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739), employ as melodic inspiration eleven melodies adopted by the composer from the liturgical repetoires of the synagogues of the Venetian Ghetto. Musical transcriptions of the original Hebrew melodies (printed from right to left) appear at the top of the piece in which they are quoted. These Hebrew melodies comprise one of the earliest, tangible …
In Search of Jewish Musical Antiquity in the 18th-Century Venetian Ghetto: "Reconsidering the Hebrew Melodies in Benedetto Marcello's "Estro Poetico-Armonico
Edwin SeroussiARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review2002
Fiddle on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World
Edwin Seroussi, Mark SlobinARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2002
Jewish Music
Edwin Seroussi, Joachim Von Braun et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Jewish music: Liturgical and paraliturgical, India (Bene Israel, Cochini and Iraqi)
Edwin SeroussiCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Jewish music: Non-liturgical, Folksongs in Jewish languages, Judeo-Arabic
Uri Sharvit, Edwin Seroussi et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Jewish music: Art and popular in the Islamic world
Edwin SeroussiCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Jewish music: Liturgical and paraliturgical, Sephardi
Edwin SeroussiCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Jewish music: Liturgical and paraliturgical, Afghanistan
Edwin SeroussiCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Jewish music: Liturgical and paraliturgical, Kurdish Jews
Edwin SeroussiCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Jewish music: Liturgical and paraliturgical, Caucasus (Mountain Jews and Georgia)
Edwin SeroussiCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Jewish music: Liturgical and paraliturgical, Iran
Edwin SeroussiCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Jewish music: Non-liturgical, Introduction
Philip V Bohlman, Edwin SeroussiCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Jewish music: Non-liturgical, Instrumental, the Islamic world
Edwin SeroussiCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Jewish music: Introduction to Liturgical and paraliturgical
Edwin SeroussiCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Jewish music: Non-liturgical, Folksongs in Jewish languages, Central and South Asian languages
Edwin SeroussiCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Israel
Jehoash Hirshberg, Natan Shahar et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Jewish music: Liturgical and paraliturgical, 20th-century developments
Edwin Seroussi, Kay Kaufman ShelemayCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001