Comments on: A Jewish Wedding? http://blog.magnes.org/opensourceblog/?p=544 opensource is a project of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:11:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Claire http://blog.magnes.org/opensourceblog/?p=544&cpage=1#comment-1611 Claire Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:32:17 +0000 http://magnes.org/opensourceblog/?p=544#comment-1611 Nice post! I really enjoyed reading it. It's quite awesome to delve in deeper into the history of those amazing paintings! Finding the artist, the origin and etc. are such puzzles especially if there weren't a lot of recorded information about it<a href="http://burnthefatfeedthemusclereview.com/burn-the-fat-feed-the-muscle-review.html" rel="nofollow">.</a> Nice post! I really enjoyed reading it. It’s quite awesome to delve in deeper into the history of those amazing paintings! Finding the artist, the origin and etc. are such puzzles especially if there weren’t a lot of recorded information about it.

]]> By: indian wedding planner http://blog.magnes.org/opensourceblog/?p=544&cpage=1#comment-1175 indian wedding planner Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:21:29 +0000 http://magnes.org/opensourceblog/?p=544#comment-1175 a very info rich article, thanks a very info rich article, thanks

]]> By: Francesco Spagnolo http://blog.magnes.org/opensourceblog/?p=544&cpage=1#comment-383 Francesco Spagnolo Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:44:05 +0000 http://magnes.org/opensourceblog/?p=544#comment-383 Here is a link to Khevrisa's CD: http://www.smithsonianfolkways.org/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=2659 The CD booklet (and the iconography it includes) can be downloaded here: http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/liner_notes/smithsonian_folkways/SFW40486.pdf Here is a link to Khevrisa’s CD: http://www.smithsonianfolkways.org/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=2659

The CD booklet (and the iconography it includes) can be downloaded here: http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/liner_notes/smithsonian_folkways/SFW40486.pdf

]]> By: Francesco Spagnolo http://blog.magnes.org/opensourceblog/?p=544&cpage=1#comment-382 Francesco Spagnolo Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:42:11 +0000 http://magnes.org/opensourceblog/?p=544#comment-382 Lovely post. It's interesting to note that this painting (and the ones related to it) represents some of the earliest iconographies of East European Jewish instrumentalists, or "klezmorim." Additional iconography can be found in the booklet of the CD by Khevrisa, European Klezmer Music (Smithsonian Folkways SFW40486, issued in 2000), which also includes stellar liner notes by Walter Zev Feldman. The cover of the CD includes a reproduction of Wesele Zydowskie (Jewish Wedding), by Wincenty Smokowski (1797-1876), 1858, National Museum, Warsaw, Poland, which depicts a Jewish wedding according to the same compositional canons: the wedding processional moves from right to left, the bride is veiled (although a bit less so in this earlier painting), and the klezmorim (musicians) are on the left, in the background. Trankowski's rendition is more "modern": instruments include violins and a clarinet, whereas Smokowski's portrays a portable bass (or cello), and a "tsimbl" (hammered dulcimer). The same "modernity" is of course also visible in the attire of the wedding participants, and especially their head coverings. Lovely post. It’s interesting to note that this painting (and the ones related to it) represents some of the earliest iconographies of East European Jewish instrumentalists, or “klezmorim.” Additional iconography can be found in the booklet of the CD by Khevrisa, European Klezmer Music (Smithsonian Folkways SFW40486, issued in 2000), which also includes stellar liner notes by Walter Zev Feldman.

The cover of the CD includes a reproduction of Wesele Zydowskie (Jewish Wedding), by Wincenty Smokowski (1797-1876), 1858, National Museum, Warsaw, Poland, which depicts a Jewish wedding according to the same compositional canons: the wedding processional moves from right to left, the bride is veiled (although a bit less so in this earlier painting), and the klezmorim (musicians) are on the left, in the background.

Trankowski’s rendition is more “modern”: instruments include violins and a clarinet, whereas Smokowski’s portrays a portable bass (or cello), and a “tsimbl” (hammered dulcimer).

The same “modernity” is of course also visible in the attire of the wedding participants, and especially their head coverings.

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