Prof. Elena Reikher (Temin)

Books (as author)

Traditional Songs of the Bukharan Jews. Israel: The Dahan Center, Bar-Ilan University, 2014.

The Muhtar Ashrafi Museum. Guide-book (Russian, Uzbek, English).Tashkent: Ministry of         Culture of Uzbek SSR, n.d.

Books (as editor)

Voprosї metodiki prepodavaniya muzїkalnїkh distsiplin (Issues of Teaching Methods of Musical Disciplines). Lectures. Tashkent: Ministry of Culture of Uzbek SSR, Educational-Methodical Center, 1991.

Articles in Books

Reikher (Temin), Elena. 2014. “Professionalism in the Musical Tradition of the Bukharan Jews: its Roots, Hypotheses, Facts” in Golda Akhiezer, Reuven Enoch and Sergei Weinstein eds., Studies in Caucasian, Georgian, and Bukharan Jewry: Historical, Sociological, and Cultural Aspects. Ariel: Ariel University, Institute for Research of Jewish Communities of Caucasus and Central Asia, pp. 52-81.

Reikher (Temin), Elena. 2014. “Bukharskiye evrei v muzykal`noy kul`ture Credney Azii (sovetskiy period)” (“Bukharan Jews in the Musical Culture of Central Asia: the Soviet Period”) in Chana Tolmas, and Markiel Fazylov eds., Vremya sobirat` almazy, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference “Bukharskiye evrei: actual`niye voprosy istorii i kul`tury” (‘Bukharan Jews: Topical Issues of their History and Culture’), Israel, September 12-15, 2014. Israel: World Bukharian Jewish Congress, Forum History Researchers, pp. 204-210. 

“Brit-Milah Songs of the Bukharian Jews: Genres and Musical Style.” In Garment and Core. Jews and their Musical Experiences, ed. Eitan Avitsur, Marina Ritzarev & Edwin Seroussi. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2012, pp. 113-33.

Bukhara - Musical Tradition. In Encyclopaedia Judaica, eds. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Scolnik. Vol.4. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007, pp. 264-265.

“On the Family-Event Songs of the Bukharan Jews (a Preliminary Survey)”. In Bukharan Jews. History, Language, Literature, Culture. Israel: World Bukharian Jewish Congress, 2006, pp. 161-169.

“Teoriya i praktika v muzikal`nїkh uchebnїkh zavedeniyakh” (“Theory and Practice in Music Education”). In Voprosї metodiki prepodavaniya muzїkal`nїkh distsiplin. Lectures. Tashkent: Ministry of Culture of Uzbek SSR, Educational-Methodical Center, 1991, pp. 83-102. 

“O spetsificheskikh fakturnїkh yavleniyakh v proizvedeniyakh kompozitorov Vostoka” (“On the Specific Textural Features in the Music of the Oriental Composers”). In Teoreticheskie problemї vneevropeyskikh muzїkal`nikh kul`tur. Moscow: Gnesins State Musical-Pedagogical Institute, 1983, pp. 130-140.

“O polikmodalnїkh vїsotnikh organizatsiyakh v proizvedeniyakh kompozitorov Vostoka” (“Polymodal Structures in the Music of the Oriental Composers”). In Voprosї teorii muzїki i ispolnitel`stva na sovremennom etape. Tashkent: Tashkent State University, 1983, pp. 22-32.

”O nekotorїkh tochkakh soprikosnoveniya vostochnoy i sovremennoy evropeyskoy muzїkal`nikh sistem” (“On Some Common Points Between the Oriental and Contemporary European music”). In Aktual`nїe problemї sovremennoy muzїki . Tashkent: Tashkent State University, 1981, pp. 21-33.

Articles in Periodicals

“Bukharan Jews in the Art Music of Central Asia”. In Musica Judaica, XIX (5770), 2009-10, pp. 137-170.

“The Female Sozanda Art from the Viewpoint of Professionalism in the Musical Tradition: A Preliminary Survey”. In Musica Judaica, XVIII (5766), 2005-06, pp. 70-86.

“Le tiuda shel hashira haamamit shel ehudey buhara – mimzaim rishonim” (“Toward Documentation of Folk Singing of the Bukharan Jews – the First Finds”). In Pe'amim. Studies in Oriental Jewry, 104, 2005, pp. 115-123. Israel.

“Pesennїy fol`klor bukharskikh ievreev” (“Folk Songs of the Bukharan Jews”). In Tsentralnaya Aziya i Kavkaz (Journal “Central Asia and Caucasus”), 1(2), 1999, pp. 193-197. Sweden.

“Grani tvorchestva: shtrikhi k portretu Muhtara Ashrafi” (“Aspects of Creativity: Touches to the Portrait of Mukhtar Ashrafy”). In Zvezda Vostoka (Journal of the Union of Writers of Uzbek SSR), 7, 1982, pp. 168-171. Uzbekistan.

“O fakturnoy organizatsii vostochnoy monodii” (“Texture of the Oriental Monody”). Moscow: NIO Informkul`tura, Lenin State Library, No. 340, 1982 (September 21).

Published Thesis and Abstracts

“Teoreticheskie voprosї vzaimodeistviya muzikal`nikh sistem ustnoy i kompozitorskoy traditsiy v regione Vostoka” (“Theoretical Issues of Interaction of the Traditional and Art Musical Systems in the Orient”). Abstract of the Ph. D. dissertation. 1984. Leningrad: Leningrad State Conservatory.

 “Ob odnom fakturnom printsipe vostochnoy monodii i ego pretvorenii v fakture proizvedeniy kompozitirov Vostoka” (“On Certain Textural Principle of Oriental Monody and its implementation in the Art Music”). In Tezisi dokladov V iskusstvovedcheskoy konferentsii molodїkh uchionїkh. Tashkent: Publishing House of TsK LKSM of Uzbek SSR, 1983, pp. 119-122.

“O nekotorїkh svoistvakh vostochnogo natural`noladovogo mnogogolosiya v aspekte yavleniy sovremennoy garmonii” (“On Some Properties of the Modal Structures of Oriental Polyphony in Terms of the Phenomena of Modern Harmony”). In Kratkiye tezisї dokladov IV iskusstvovedcheskoy nauchno-teoreticheskoy konferentsii molodїkh uchionїkh. Tashkent: Publishing House of TsK LKSM of Uzbek SSR, 1981, pp. 47-49.

Conferences

 “Bukharskiye evrei v muzykal`noy kul`ture Credney Azii (sovetskiy period)” (“Bukharan Jews in the Musical Culture of Central Asia: the Soviet Period”) in “Bukharskiye evrei: actual`niye voprosy istorii i kul`tury” (“Bukharan Jews: Topical Issues of their History and Culture”), Sixth International Conference, World Bukharian Jewish Congress, Forum History Researchers, Israel, September 12-15, 2014.

"המקצוענות המוזיקלית באומנות ה"סוזנדה" של נשים בוכריות",  ב"יהודי בוכרה", יום עיון ,מכובן צבי לחקר קהילות ישראל במזרח, יד יצחק בן צבי והאוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים, ירושלים, 4 בפברואר 2009.

 “The folk-songs of the Bukharan Jews” in Irano-Judaica, Fourth International Conference, Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East of Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, July 12-15, 1998.