This list does not include the many reports, articles and eulogies on Boskovich and his music published in periodicals and daily newspapers in Israel and abroad (including several by the musicologists Herzl Shmueli and Jehoash Hirshberg, authors of the Boskovich monograph cited below, as well as prominent figures in Israeli musical life, including the author, composer and musician Max Brod; the critic and musicologist Natan Mishori; composers Tzvi Avni and Yehuda Yannay; and others). We have also omitted entries on Boskovich that appeared, inter alia, in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980, revised 2001; also available online), Encyclopedia Judaica (1971, revised 2007; also available online), Alice Tischler’s Descriptive Bibliography of Art Music by Israeli Composers (1989, revised 2001), and others.
The bibliography is divided into sections. The bibliographical information is provided both in the original Hebrew and in English translation. The second section covers items published in English and other languages. Within each section, the items are arranged in chronological order.
Gradenwitz, Peter. Music and Musicians in Israel. Tel Aviv: Israeli Music Publications, 1959, p. 79. (Hebrew edition: IMP, 1977). (EN)
Sellman-Eggebert, Ulrich. “Israels großter Komponist – zum Tode Alexander Uriyah Boskovich”. Darmstädter-Echo, 4.12.1964. (DE)
Mishori, Nathan. “First Performance: Ornaments for Flute and Orchestra (1964)”. Proceedings of The Seventh Annual Conference – Israel Music Week (Tel Aviv, 1966), pp.65-66. (HE)
Iyunim Be-Muzika (Journal of the Israel Composers’ League), issues 11-12 (October 1976): Proceedings of the study day “Alexander Uriyah Boskovich – his Music and his Thought”. Introduction by Yehezkel Braun; papers by Michal Smoira-Cohn (“A. U. Boskovich’s Legacy as Artist and Critic”), Herzl Shmueli (“A. U. Boskovich’s Theory and Philosophy”) and Avner Bahat (“Boskovich – his Last Works”). (HE)
Boskovich, Miriam. “Alexander Uriyah Boskovich – from The Golden Chain to Semitic Suite: 1) Piano Pieces for Youth; 2) Semitic Suite”. A Guide to the Performance of Israeli Piano Works, ed. Miriam Boskovich and Yona Rosenthal- Bogorov (Tel Aviv: The Methodical Centre for Music, 1987), pp. 39-79. (HE)
Lev, Tomer. The Samuel Rubin Academy of Music: The First Fifty Years, 1945-1995 (Tel Aviv University, 1998), pp. 45-48, 66-69. (HE)
Toledano, Gila. Story of a Company: Sara Levi-Tanai and the Inbal Dance-Theatre (Tel Aviv: Resling, 2005), p. 62. (HE)
Bahat, Avner. Jewish Music: Introduction to its Treasures & Creators (Bnei Bark: Sifryiat Hilel Ben Haim – Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2011), pp. 394-395. (HE)
Seelmann-Eggebert, Ulrich. “Alexander Uriyah Boskovich”. Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 1/1965 (January 1965). (DE)
Hirshberg, Jehoash. “The ‘Israeli’ in Israeli Music”. Israel Studies in Musicology, vol. I (1978), pp. 159-171. (EN)
Hirshberg, Jehoash. Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine, 1880-1948 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), pp. 160-161, 165-166, 262-266. (EN)
IMI News 1997/2-1998/1 – issue dedicated to Boskovich. Articles by Jehoash Hirshberg (“Alexander Uriyah Boskovich and the Quest for an Israeli National Style”), Nathan Mishori (“Shemot – The Last Unfinished Work of A. U. Boskovich”), Herzl Shmueli (“The ‘Where’ and the ‘When’ in the Dialectic Thought of Alexander Uriyah Boskovich”), Yehuda Yannay (“Encountering the Boskovich Legacy – A Generation Later”), Habib Hasan Touma (“Alexander Uriyah Boskovich, My Teacher”) and Igal Myrtenbaum (“IMI PRESENTS: Concerto da Camera [by Alexander Uriyah Boskovich] – Composition in the Shade of Its Genealogy”; also available, in Hebrew and in English, in the liner notes to MII-CD-26; see Discography). (EN)
Hirshberg, Jehoash. “The Music of Alexander Uriyah Boskovich (1907- 1964) as Representation of Ideology in Israeli Music”. Studia Judaica XIV (Cluj-Napoca: Babes-Bolyai University, The History and Philosophy Faculty; the Moshe Carmilly Institute for Hebrew and Jewish History, 2006), pp. 395-405. (EN)
Ghita, Valentin. Chapter IV/2: “The Golden Chain by Alexander Uriyah Boskovich”, in: Jewish Music in the Romanian Area (PhD thesis, George Enescu University of Art, Yasi, Romania, c. 2010), pp. 316-413. (RO)
Ghita, Valentin. “Alexander Uriyah Boskovich: compozitor clujean, întemeietor al muzicii simfonice israeliene” (“Alexander Uriyah Boskovich: Composer of Cluj, One of the Founders of Israeli Classical Music”), in File din istoria evreimii clujene (Pages of the History of Cluj Jewry; Cluj-Napoca: Editura Mega, 2011), pp. 125-130. (RO)
Seter, Ronit. “Israelism: Nationalism, Orientalism, and the Israeli Five”. Musical Quarterly 97/2 (Summer 2014), pp. 238-308. (EN)
Shelleg, Assaf. Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 117-133. (EN)
Reviews
Horst, Leo. “Hobconcert van Boskovich”, Nieuw Israelietisch Weekblad, Amsterdam, 03.02.1959. (NL)
L.B.V. “Hobconcert van Boskovich”, Het Parol, 09.03.1959. (NL)
Shmueli, Herzl. “The Works Of The Late A.U.Boskovich”, Haaretz, 04.12.1964, pp.10, 13 (HE)
Critiques by A.U.Boskovich
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Eulogies
Yannay, Yehuda. “The Late A.U.Boskovich: Profile of a Creative Artist (1907 – 1964)”. Proceedings of The Seventh Annual Conference – Israel Music Week (Tel Aviv, 1966), pp.40-41. (HE)
Works Dedicated to Boskovich
Mordecai Setter. “Hagot”, The Symphony Orchestra – dedicated to Alexader Uryah Boskovich (EN)
Tzvi Snunit, 7 Etudes for Piano – Dedicated Alexader Uryah Boskovich
Yoram Paporish, Discoverys – Dedicated Alexader Uryah Boskovich
Diane Thom – Deutsch, Remembering A.U. Boskovich – Dedicated Alexader Uryah Boskovich
Eddie Halpern, 2 works for Oboe + Piano – Dedicated to Alexader Uryah Boskovich
Shlomo Yoffe, “Beautiful Village” S.O. / Composers’ CD – Dedicated to Alexader Uryah Boskovich
Max Brod. La Méditerranée. Rapsodie pour le piano, Op. 28 – dedicated to Alexader Uryah Boskovich (FR)