The Western musical tradition has produced not only music, but also countless writings about music that remain in continuous—and enormously influential—dialogue with their subject. With sweeping scope and philosophical depth, A Language of Its Own traces the past millennium of this ongoing exchange. Ruth Katz argues that the indispensable relationship between intellectual production and musical creation gave rise to the Western conception of music. This evolving and sometimes conflicted process, in turn, shaped the art form itself. As ideas entered music from the contexts in which it existed, its internal language developed in tandem with shifts in intellectual and social history. Katz explores how this infrastructure allowed music to explain itself from within, creating a self-referential and rational foundation that has begun to erode in recent years. A magisterial exploration of a frequently overlooked intersection of Western art and philosophy, A Language of Its Own restores music to its rightful place in the history of ideas.

Purchase other products in this kit: Textbook and workbook / Textbook and workbook for Arabic speakers / Shuvi: An audio program / Audio sequences / Online presentation The First and Foremost set is designed for students of the Hebrew language at the beginners level. It was written along the principles of the communicative language approach. The contents of this book deal with the world and Israel, reflecting the varied aspects of the Israeli culture and aspiring to create a dialogue between the student and the many faces of Israeli culture, enabling a multicultural dialogue. It touches upon subjects that relate to the individual, society, and community. It includes translated instructions and the workbook includes a dictionary of all the words required at this level, as well as translated explanations of the linguistic issues. The set is accompanied by complementary teaching materials for the student and teacher: dictionaries, presentations, teacher’s guide, and more. First and Foremost - Teacher's Guide accompanies the set. It contains detailed lesson plans, suggestions and ideas for teaching methods and enrichment of the texts, conversations, exercises and the rest of the material in the textbook. The guide is designed to serve both beginning and experienced teachers. The guide includes references to the material in the various parts of the set: the presentations, audio files, and others.

Rav Pe'alim, Hebrew Verbs for Advanced Level: Part 2 is intended for students learning verbs at Level Heh (according to the system taught at the Hebrew University's International School). The book contains not only diverse verb form exercises but also explanations and exercises aiming to enrich students' vocabulary and improve their adequacy in the meanings of the roots and forms. The book also provides grammatical explanations and strategies for solving verb exercises.

Graph Theory is, as far as we know, the first to be written by this approach. Its initial purpose was to serve as a high-school textbook for students learning graph theory in a systematic and orderly manner. Until the publication of this book, graph theory was only taught in academic institutions. The book soon began to serve as a reference book and even as a textbook in colleges and academic institutes for lecturers and students of mathematics and computer science. The book in its current format includes five chapters: 1. Definitions, Examples and Basic Concepts; 2. Paths and Circuits in Graphs; 3. Trees 4. Networks 5. Games, Puzzles and Graph Theory. The intention is to release it in a new and expanded edition.

A dialogue between Michal Zmora-Cohen and Moshe Zuckermann on the development of music in the 20th century. While Zmora-Cohen criticized this development, Zuckermann defended it. The discourse has musicological, historical and philosophical aspects.

Please note: The audio sequences cannot be downloaded to any device and are accessed only via the Magnes website. In order to listen to the audio please log into the Magnes website, then click your name, MY AUDIO and LISTEN NOW. Upon purchasing this product you will be able to listen to 126 files matching the texts in the textbook Hebrew: Take 2 . The files were recorded in order to help students develop listening skills, pronounce words and improve reading skills. The files are arranged in the order of the appearance of the texts in the book, by chapter. The narrator specifies at the beginning of each segment the number of the page it refers to. The pace of the narration is suitable for Level Bet. All of the files were recorded in standard Hebrew, according to the pronunciation rules of the Academy of the Hebrew Language.

With its five thematic sections covering genres from cantorial to classical to klezmer, this pioneering multi-disciplinary volume presents rich coverage of the work of musicians of Jewish origin in the Polish lands. It opens with the musical consequences of developments in Jewish religious practice: the spread of hasidism in the eighteenth century meant that popular melodies replaced traditional cantorial music, while the greater acculturation of Jews in the nineteenth century brought with it synagogue choirs. Jewish involvement in popular culture included performances for the wider public, Yiddish songs and the Yiddish theatre, and contributions of many different sorts---technical and commercial as well as creative---in the interwar years. Chapters on the classical music scene cover Jewish musical institutions, organizations, and education; individual composers and musicians; and a consideration of music and Jewish national identity. One section is devoted to the Holocaust as reflected in Jewish music, and the final section deals with the afterlife of Jewish musical creativity in Poland, particularly the resurgence of interest in klezmer music. The essays in this collection do not attempt to to define what may well be undefinable---what ‘Jewish music’ is. Rather, they provide an original and much-needed exploration of the activities and creativity of ‘musicians of the Jewish faith’.

Purchase other products in this kit: Textbook and workbook / Textbook and workbook for Arabic speakers / Shuvi: An audio program / Teacher's guide / Online presentation Please note: The audio sequences cannot be downloaded to any device and are accessed only via the Magnes website. In order to listen to the audio please log into the Magnes website, then click your name, MY AUDIO and LISTEN NOW. Before you are some 250 recorded reading and conversation excerpts, which appear in the textbook First and Foremost . They are divided here into chapters and according to their page numbers in the book. They are narrated in natural Israeli Hebrew by five narrators.

In Second Gear: Beginner Level to Intermediate Level is aimed at students learning with the book First and Foremost for beginners. The book provides concentrated material designed particularly for the end of level Bet, including morphology and syntax. This textbook contains nine chapters, each with a different theme. They all have a similar structure: opening, syntax subject, morphological subject and verb group. This is trial edition. Please note that it has not been completed and edited in full.

Partnership in Healthcare: The Patient, the Caregiver and the Bridge between Them examines the various influences on the quality and significance of the meeting between patients and caregivers. This meeting point, which occurs numerous times a day, has a deep influence on the treatment in general and on the experience of both the patient and the caregiver.

A workbook accompanying Hebrew from Scratch Part 2 . Intended for both teachers as supplementary material for classroom use, and for students to practice at home. The workbook is divided into chapters according to the subjects of the book, dealing with linguistic issues and vocabulary, as well as verbal and written practice. In addition, it contains texts for practicing reading comprehension, also divided by the book subjects. Exercise answers are to be found at the end.

The book Intermediate Hebrew - Teacher's Guide offers suggestions and extra exercises for vocabulary and grammar.