Jaclyn Chernett Thesis

Jaclyn Chernett MPhil Thesis

An introduction by Ms. Chernett

The Torah is read in mainstream Ashkenazi synagogues using a Western European-style trop (cantillation chant).  The majority of Jewish Ashkenazi immigrants to the UK are from Eastern Europe (Poland/Russia). The nusach hat'fillah, prayer chants, of those communities are basically Eastern European. This created a musical paradox which is researched in this thesis.

Jaclyn Chernett MPhil (City University, London, 1998) is a member of the Association of the London College of Music (1959). She is the first woman in the UK to have been ordained as a cantor (Academy for Jewish Religion, New York, 2006). 

Link to Jaclyn Chernet thesis in PDF format here.

Some Links of Interest

These are links to items in the DJSA relating to topics in Cantor Chernett's thesis which are highlighed in the online PDF.

Abraham Dunajewsky Abraham Wolf Binder Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
Adult Jewish males were conscripted into the Russian army for twenty-five years. Song Yoshka fort avek Amnon Shiloah André Hajdu
Arnold Schoenberg, Koi Nidré, for Speaker, Chorus and Orchestra, op. 39 1938 Bevis Marks Synagogue

Boruch Schorr’s son, Israel Schorr

 

C G Verrinder Cantorial Anthology of Gershon Ephros Chaim Weizmann
David de Sola David Koussevitzky or David Kusevitsky David Nowakowsky
Eduard Birnbaum Gateshead Gershon Ephros
Gershon Sirota Golden cantorial age Hampstead Synagogue
Hebrew as a spoken language Hebrew Union College Herman Mayerowitsch
I L Peretz Israel (Julius) Lazarus Mombach Joseph Herman Hertz
J S Weisser Jacob Koussevitzky or Jacob Kusevitsky Jewish Theological Seminary or JTS
Josef (Yossele) Rosenblatt Joseph Herman Hertz Koussevitzky brothers
Leib Glantz Leo Bryll Louis Berkman
Louis Lewandowski Lubavitch Chassidic movement Max Bruch, Koi Nidré, Adagio on Hebrew Melodiesfor Cello and Orchestra, op.47, 1881 
Mordecai Hershman Moshe Haschel Moshe Koussevitzky (Kusevitsky)
Salome Pinkasowicz Salomone de’Rossi Samuel Alman
Samuel Maragowsky of Rovno aka Zeidl Rovner Samuel Naumbourg Shalom Aleichem
Simcha Koussevitzky Stanley Brickman Sulzer’s influence on European Synagogue Music
The establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 United Synagogue Vladimir Jabotinsky
Voice of Prayer and Praise (aka ‘the Blue Book’) Warshawski Wasserzug
Zevulun (Zavel) Kwartin    

 

And, One link NOT in the Thesis, but Which belongs here

London School of Jewish Song