Abigail Wood
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601576 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abigail Wood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abigail |
| FAMILY NAME | Wood |
| SIGNATURE | WOOD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1448-294X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Religious Jewish Mothers as Music Mentors: Educating a New Generation of Ethical Listeners in the Age of Infinite Availability
This study explores how Orthodox Jewish-Israeli mothers use music as a tool for informal religious education in the home, navigating the challenges of the digital age. Through interviews with 27 mothers, our research reveals their strategies for curating soundscapes, managing age-appropriate content, and negotiating shared listening spaces. These practices reflect broader patterns in religious education, where music is used to reinforce values, s…
Resonating repentance: Selichot and the performance of Mizrahi identity in the Israeli public sphere
The present article explores the revitalization of the Sephardi selichot (penitential prayers) custom in recent decades in Israel. From melodies that formed part of an early morning synagogue service described in the 1970s as declining in popularity, by the 2020s, Sephardi selichot have established a highly audible place in Jewish-Israeli culture, via large-scale concerts, media broadcasts and popular recordings that define the public Israeli sou…
Sexual offences committed by members of the armed forces: Is the service justice system fit for purpose
Recent policy reviews, academic research and high-profile media critiques have repeatedly emphasised the UK military as a hypermasculine culture, seemingly permissive of sexual violence, marked by high prevalence of sexual offences and an inadequate justice response. The service justice system has been characterised by low conviction rates and poor treatment of victim-survivors of sexual offences, prompting recommendation that rape should be trie…
Social media and Internet-based communication in military families during separation: An international scoping review
The last decade has seen the growth of social media and Internet-based communication. Recent research highlighted the need for exploration of the use of social media by military families due to the significant period of separation that they experience. On this basis, an international scoping review was undertaken to explore how military families use Internet-based communication and social media to communicate with their serving members and what t…
Togetherness in Separation: Practical Considerations for Doing Remote Qualitative Interviews Ethically
This discussion paper considers some of the practical and ethical aspects of doing qualitative interviews using synchronous online visual technologies within a shifting research context. It is argued that the immediate access to potential participants and subsequent data collection necessitate adjustment to the ways in which qualitative researchers understand and apply ethics, accountability, and responsibility in their data collection processes.…
Becoming musicians: Learning strategies among Palestinian Arab wedding musicians in the Galilee region
This article probes the socially embedded musical pathways and learning strategies followed by professional Palestinian Arab wedding musicians active in the Galilee region of northern Israel from the late 1960s until the present day, from their first childhood experiences of music until the point when they step onto the platform for the first time to perform for payment at a wedding party. Following Susan O’Neill’s model of the thick learning eco…
From Galilee Villages to the Mountains of Al-Sham: Local and Regional Musical Networks among Palestinian Arab Wedding Musicians in Northern Israel
Based on recent ethnographic work, we explore the ways in which transnational cosmopolitan music crosses, creates, and reinscribes borders as it is performed by Palestinian Arab wedding musicians in northern Israel. While Palestinian nationalism and the hard political borders between Israel and its neighbouring states frame immediate questions of identity and mobility, in describing their musical practices, musicians turn to a complex, interleave…
Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory. By Walter Zev Feldman
Walter Zev Feldman’s present volume is the first full-length academic study since the 1960s to address the social history and musical structures of klezmer music in pre-Holocaust central and eastern Europe. Instrumental music played by professional musicians, klezmer comprises heterogeneous repertories that were the mainstay of the east-European Jewish wedding, yet were also performed for diverse non-Jewish audiences, across a long historical dur…
And We're All Brothers: Singing in Yiddish in Contemporary North America
The dawn of the twenty-first century marked a turning period for American Yiddish culture. The 'Old World' of Yiddish-speaking Eastern Europe was fading from living memory - yet at the same time, Yiddish song enjoyed a renaissance of creative interest, both among a younger generation seeking reengagement with the Yiddish language, and, most prominently via the transnational revival of klezmer music. The last quarter of the twentieth century and t…
The Cantor and The Muezzin’s Duet: Contested Soundscapes At Jerusalem’s Western Wall
Sound, Narrative and the Spaces in between: Disruptive Listening in Jerusalem’s Old City
This article explores the intertwined roles of sound performance, listening and narration as agentive modes of parsing conflicted spaces in Jerusalem’s Old City. Via a series of ethnographic case studies, I illustrate some of the everyday ways in which overlapping geographies are constructed and communicated in public and semi-public ‘civil’ spaces at the contested seams of Israel and Palestine. In performing music in the city, citing poetry or p…
From Practical Men to Scientific Experts: British Veterinary Surgeons and the Development of Government Scientific Expertise,C.1878-1919
INTRODUCTIONUsing veterinary surgeons as a case study, this paper aims to develop a new perspective on scientific expertise within late nineteenth and early twentienth century British government. The importance of such expertise - which was defined, by the 1880s, as special skill or knowledge,' is widely recognised by historians. First appointed as inspectors under reforming mid-nineteenth century legislation in public health, animal health, fish…
From cruelty to welfare: The emergence of farm animal welfare in Britain, 1964–71
Rethinking the History of Modern Agriculture: British Pig Production, c.1910-65
This article uses a study of pig production in Britain, c.1910-65, to rethink the history of modern agriculture and its implications for human-animal relationships. Drawing on literature written by and for pig producers and experts, it challenges existing portrayals of a unidirectional, post-Second World War shift from traditional small-scale mixed farming to large, specialized, intensive systems. Rather, 'factory-style' pig production was alread…
Music and its Virtues in Islamic and Judaic Writings
Music and its Virtues in Islamic and Judaic Writings Amnon Shiloah Variorum Collected Studies Series, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007 xii + 318 pp., ISBN 978-0-7546-5918-1 (cloth £60.00) The mythic and hi...
The Diverse Voices of Contemporary Ethnomusicology
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The Rough Guide to the Music of IsraelPutumayo Presents IsraelWith Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central YemenA Song of Dawn: The Jerusalem Sephardi Baqqashot at the Har Tzyion Synago…
Book Review| October 01 2008 The Rough Guide to the Music of IsraelPutumayo Presents IsraelWith Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central YemenA Song of Dawn: The Jerusalem Sephardi Baqqashot at the Har Tzyion Synagogue The Rough Guide to the Music of Israel, Dan Rosenberg.Putumayo Presents Israel, Jacob Edgar.With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen, Naomi Bahat-Ratzon and Avner Bahat.A Song of Dawn: The Jer…
The farm as clinic: Veterinary Expertise and the Transformation of Dairy Farming, 1930–1950
Stepping across the Divide: Hasidic Music in Today's Yiddish Canon
Research Article| April 01 2007 Stepping across the Divide: Hasidic Music in Today’s Yiddish Canon Abigail Wood Abigail Wood Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2007) 51 (2): 205–237. https://doi.org/10.2307/20174524 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Abigail Wood; Stepping across the Divide: Hasidic Music in Today’s Yiddish Canon. Ethnomusicolo…
The Music of the Hebrew Bible: The Western Ashkenazic Tradition
Schmidt's assertion that 'in spite of [their] diversity of backgrounds and aspirations, all eleven [artists] shared one thing: their intrinsic Jewishness that they expressed in their art ' (p.239).Schmidt construes this 'intrinsic Jewishness', or 'being Jewish in one's soul', not just as a quality that unites the artists of the Fifth Zionist Congress but as a 'criterion for the creation of Jewish art ' (pp.239, 241, 242).In positing this 'intrins…
Flames and fear on the farms: Controlling foot and mouth disease in Britain, 1892-2001
For over a century, the British government has pursued a policy of national freedom from foot and mouth disease (F.M.D.), a highly contagious disease of cloven-footed animals. One of the cornerstones of this policy was the slaughter of infected animals. However, on several occasions - most notably in 2001 - slaughter struggled to contain F.M.D., and provoked widespread criticism and calls for policy change. Drawing upon a range of previously unex…
Commemoration and Creativity: Remembering the Holocaust in Today’s Yiddish Song
The Holocaust was undoubtedly the single event that most influenced the course of Yiddish song during the twentieth century. Its effects on Yiddish culture were incalculable. Despite the increasing difficulty of Jewish life in central and Eastern Europe during the 1930s, this was also a period of flowering of Yiddish cultural life. Many believed that the strong network of Yiddish publications, education, cultural events and political organisation…
Togetherness in Separation: Practical Considerations for Doing Remote Qualitative Interviews Ethically
This discussion paper considers some of the practical and ethical aspects of doing qualitative interviews using synchronous online visual technologies within a shifting research context. It is argued that the immediate access to potential participants and subsequent data collection necessitate adjustment to the ways in which qualitative researchers understand and apply ethics, accountability, and responsibility in their data collection processes.…
Rethinking the History of Modern Agriculture: British Pig Production, c.1910-65
This article uses a study of pig production in Britain, c.1910-65, to rethink the history of modern agriculture and its implications for human-animal relationships. Drawing on literature written by and for pig producers and experts, it challenges existing portrayals of a unidirectional, post-Second World War shift from traditional small-scale mixed farming to large, specialized, intensive systems. Rather, 'factory-style' pig production was alread…
The farm as clinic: Veterinary Expertise and the Transformation of Dairy Farming, 1930–1950
From cruelty to welfare: The emergence of farm animal welfare in Britain, 1964–71
Sound, Narrative and the Spaces in between: Disruptive Listening in Jerusalem’s Old City
This article explores the intertwined roles of sound performance, listening and narration as agentive modes of parsing conflicted spaces in Jerusalem’s Old City. Via a series of ethnographic case studies, I illustrate some of the everyday ways in which overlapping geographies are constructed and communicated in public and semi-public ‘civil’ spaces at the contested seams of Israel and Palestine. In performing music in the city, citing poetry or p…
Social media and Internet-based communication in military families during separation: An international scoping review
The last decade has seen the growth of social media and Internet-based communication. Recent research highlighted the need for exploration of the use of social media by military families due to the significant period of separation that they experience. On this basis, an international scoping review was undertaken to explore how military families use Internet-based communication and social media to communicate with their serving members and what t…
Sexual offences committed by members of the armed forces: Is the service justice system fit for purpose
Recent policy reviews, academic research and high-profile media critiques have repeatedly emphasised the UK military as a hypermasculine culture, seemingly permissive of sexual violence, marked by high prevalence of sexual offences and an inadequate justice response. The service justice system has been characterised by low conviction rates and poor treatment of victim-survivors of sexual offences, prompting recommendation that rape should be trie…
From Practical Men to Scientific Experts: British Veterinary Surgeons and the Development of Government Scientific Expertise,C.1878-1919
INTRODUCTIONUsing veterinary surgeons as a case study, this paper aims to develop a new perspective on scientific expertise within late nineteenth and early twentienth century British government. The importance of such expertise - which was defined, by the 1880s, as special skill or knowledge,' is widely recognised by historians. First appointed as inspectors under reforming mid-nineteenth century legislation in public health, animal health, fish…
Stepping across the Divide: Hasidic Music in Today's Yiddish Canon
Research Article| April 01 2007 Stepping across the Divide: Hasidic Music in Today’s Yiddish Canon Abigail Wood Abigail Wood Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2007) 51 (2): 205–237. https://doi.org/10.2307/20174524 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Abigail Wood; Stepping across the Divide: Hasidic Music in Today’s Yiddish Canon. Ethnomusicolo…
Flames and fear on the farms: Controlling foot and mouth disease in Britain, 1892-2001
For over a century, the British government has pursued a policy of national freedom from foot and mouth disease (F.M.D.), a highly contagious disease of cloven-footed animals. One of the cornerstones of this policy was the slaughter of infected animals. However, on several occasions - most notably in 2001 - slaughter struggled to contain F.M.D., and provoked widespread criticism and calls for policy change. Drawing upon a range of previously unex…
Commemoration and Creativity: Remembering the Holocaust in Today’s Yiddish Song
The Holocaust was undoubtedly the single event that most influenced the course of Yiddish song during the twentieth century. Its effects on Yiddish culture were incalculable. Despite the increasing difficulty of Jewish life in central and Eastern Europe during the 1930s, this was also a period of flowering of Yiddish cultural life. Many believed that the strong network of Yiddish publications, education, cultural events and political organisation…
The Music of the Hebrew Bible: The Western Ashkenazic Tradition
Schmidt's assertion that 'in spite of [their] diversity of backgrounds and aspirations, all eleven [artists] shared one thing: their intrinsic Jewishness that they expressed in their art ' (p.239).Schmidt construes this 'intrinsic Jewishness', or 'being Jewish in one's soul', not just as a quality that unites the artists of the Fifth Zionist Congress but as a 'criterion for the creation of Jewish art ' (pp.239, 241, 242).In positing this 'intrins…
Flames and fear on the farms: Controlling foot and mouth disease in Britain, 1892-2001
For over a century, the British government has pursued a policy of national freedom from foot and mouth disease (F.M.D.), a highly contagious disease of cloven-footed animals. One of the cornerstones of this policy was the slaughter of infected animals. However, on several occasions - most notably in 2001 - slaughter struggled to contain F.M.D., and provoked widespread criticism and calls for policy change. Drawing upon a range of previously unex…
The farm as clinic: Veterinary Expertise and the Transformation of Dairy Farming, 1930–1950
Stepping across the Divide: Hasidic Music in Today's Yiddish Canon
Research Article| April 01 2007 Stepping across the Divide: Hasidic Music in Today’s Yiddish Canon Abigail Wood Abigail Wood Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2007) 51 (2): 205–237. https://doi.org/10.2307/20174524 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Abigail Wood; Stepping across the Divide: Hasidic Music in Today’s Yiddish Canon. Ethnomusicolo…
The Rough Guide to the Music of IsraelPutumayo Presents IsraelWith Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central YemenA Song of Dawn: The Jerusalem Sephardi Baqqashot at the Har Tzyion Synago…
Book Review| October 01 2008 The Rough Guide to the Music of IsraelPutumayo Presents IsraelWith Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central YemenA Song of Dawn: The Jerusalem Sephardi Baqqashot at the Har Tzyion Synagogue The Rough Guide to the Music of Israel, Dan Rosenberg.Putumayo Presents Israel, Jacob Edgar.With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen, Naomi Bahat-Ratzon and Avner Bahat.A Song of Dawn: The Jer…
The Diverse Voices of Contemporary Ethnomusicology
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Music and its Virtues in Islamic and Judaic Writings
Music and its Virtues in Islamic and Judaic Writings Amnon Shiloah Variorum Collected Studies Series, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007 xii + 318 pp., ISBN 978-0-7546-5918-1 (cloth £60.00) The mythic and hi...
From cruelty to welfare: The emergence of farm animal welfare in Britain, 1964–71
Rethinking the History of Modern Agriculture: British Pig Production, c.1910-65
This article uses a study of pig production in Britain, c.1910-65, to rethink the history of modern agriculture and its implications for human-animal relationships. Drawing on literature written by and for pig producers and experts, it challenges existing portrayals of a unidirectional, post-Second World War shift from traditional small-scale mixed farming to large, specialized, intensive systems. Rather, 'factory-style' pig production was alread…
Sound, Narrative and the Spaces in between: Disruptive Listening in Jerusalem’s Old City
This article explores the intertwined roles of sound performance, listening and narration as agentive modes of parsing conflicted spaces in Jerusalem’s Old City. Via a series of ethnographic case studies, I illustrate some of the everyday ways in which overlapping geographies are constructed and communicated in public and semi-public ‘civil’ spaces at the contested seams of Israel and Palestine. In performing music in the city, citing poetry or p…
From Practical Men to Scientific Experts: British Veterinary Surgeons and the Development of Government Scientific Expertise,C.1878-1919
INTRODUCTIONUsing veterinary surgeons as a case study, this paper aims to develop a new perspective on scientific expertise within late nineteenth and early twentienth century British government. The importance of such expertise - which was defined, by the 1880s, as special skill or knowledge,' is widely recognised by historians. First appointed as inspectors under reforming mid-nineteenth century legislation in public health, animal health, fish…
The Cantor and The Muezzin’s Duet: Contested Soundscapes At Jerusalem’s Western Wall
And We're All Brothers: Singing in Yiddish in Contemporary North America
The dawn of the twenty-first century marked a turning period for American Yiddish culture. The 'Old World' of Yiddish-speaking Eastern Europe was fading from living memory - yet at the same time, Yiddish song enjoyed a renaissance of creative interest, both among a younger generation seeking reengagement with the Yiddish language, and, most prominently via the transnational revival of klezmer music. The last quarter of the twentieth century and t…
Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory. By Walter Zev Feldman
Walter Zev Feldman’s present volume is the first full-length academic study since the 1960s to address the social history and musical structures of klezmer music in pre-Holocaust central and eastern Europe. Instrumental music played by professional musicians, klezmer comprises heterogeneous repertories that were the mainstay of the east-European Jewish wedding, yet were also performed for diverse non-Jewish audiences, across a long historical dur…
From Galilee Villages to the Mountains of Al-Sham: Local and Regional Musical Networks among Palestinian Arab Wedding Musicians in Northern Israel
Based on recent ethnographic work, we explore the ways in which transnational cosmopolitan music crosses, creates, and reinscribes borders as it is performed by Palestinian Arab wedding musicians in northern Israel. While Palestinian nationalism and the hard political borders between Israel and its neighbouring states frame immediate questions of identity and mobility, in describing their musical practices, musicians turn to a complex, interleave…
Becoming musicians: Learning strategies among Palestinian Arab wedding musicians in the Galilee region
This article probes the socially embedded musical pathways and learning strategies followed by professional Palestinian Arab wedding musicians active in the Galilee region of northern Israel from the late 1960s until the present day, from their first childhood experiences of music until the point when they step onto the platform for the first time to perform for payment at a wedding party. Following Susan O’Neill’s model of the thick learning eco…
Social media and Internet-based communication in military families during separation: An international scoping review
The last decade has seen the growth of social media and Internet-based communication. Recent research highlighted the need for exploration of the use of social media by military families due to the significant period of separation that they experience. On this basis, an international scoping review was undertaken to explore how military families use Internet-based communication and social media to communicate with their serving members and what t…
Togetherness in Separation: Practical Considerations for Doing Remote Qualitative Interviews Ethically
This discussion paper considers some of the practical and ethical aspects of doing qualitative interviews using synchronous online visual technologies within a shifting research context. It is argued that the immediate access to potential participants and subsequent data collection necessitate adjustment to the ways in which qualitative researchers understand and apply ethics, accountability, and responsibility in their data collection processes.…
Sexual offences committed by members of the armed forces: Is the service justice system fit for purpose
Recent policy reviews, academic research and high-profile media critiques have repeatedly emphasised the UK military as a hypermasculine culture, seemingly permissive of sexual violence, marked by high prevalence of sexual offences and an inadequate justice response. The service justice system has been characterised by low conviction rates and poor treatment of victim-survivors of sexual offences, prompting recommendation that rape should be trie…
Resonating repentance: Selichot and the performance of Mizrahi identity in the Israeli public sphere
The present article explores the revitalization of the Sephardi selichot (penitential prayers) custom in recent decades in Israel. From melodies that formed part of an early morning synagogue service described in the 1970s as declining in popularity, by the 2020s, Sephardi selichot have established a highly audible place in Jewish-Israeli culture, via large-scale concerts, media broadcasts and popular recordings that define the public Israeli sou…
Religious Jewish Mothers as Music Mentors: Educating a New Generation of Ethical Listeners in the Age of Infinite Availability
This study explores how Orthodox Jewish-Israeli mothers use music as a tool for informal religious education in the home, navigating the challenges of the digital age. Through interviews with 27 mothers, our research reveals their strategies for curating soundscapes, managing age-appropriate content, and negotiating shared listening spaces. These practices reflect broader patterns in religious education, where music is used to reinforce values, s…
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