Olve Utne

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Olve Utne (b. 1965), Cand.philol. (graduate degree) in Musicology with main weight on ethnomusicology from the University of Oslo, Norway; undergrad. degree (Cand.mag.) also includes Linguistics (equiv. 37.5 US credits), Lexicography and Nordic languages. Bureaucrat on Nynorsk Wikipedia, where we passed the magical 10,000 articles limit on 7 August, 2005 after a year and a week in existence. :-)

It is easiest to get in touch with me on my talk page at Nynorsk Wikipedia.

Publications

Books

As author

• 1994 - Olve Utne og Anne Kleivset: Songen hennar Magnhild : Magnhild Havdal Almhjell (1894–1985). Tuddal (Buen Kulturverkstad), 1994. (Bok, 112 s. + lydkassett)
• 1996 - Olve Utne: Nokre aspekt ved tonalitet og transkripsjonsmåte i eit folkemusikalsk materiale frå Nordmøre. Oslo (Institutt for musikk og teater, Univ. i Oslo), 1996. (98 s.)
• 2006 - Olve Utne: סִידּוּר לִימּוּד ־ סֵֽדֶר תְּפִלּוֹת כְּמִנְהַג ק”ק סְפָרַדִּים עִם תּֽוֹסָפוֹת מִמִּנְהָגֵי אִיטַלְיָינִים וְאַשְׁכְּנַזִּים עִם תַּרְגּוּם לָדִינוֹ וְאַנְגְּלִית וְעִם הֲלָכוֹת וּמִנְהָגִים מֵאֶת אֵֽלִיָּה אֽוּתְנֶה. א’ עֶֽרֶב שַׁבָּת. = Siddúr Limmúd : a traditional-egalitarian learning siddur based on Sefaradí, Italiani & Ashkenazi sources, and with full transliteration, translations, instructions and explanations. I: Friday night. Hassafon Publishing, 2006. (hardcover | paperback)

In progress

(Titles are work titles and, while being copyrighted as intellectual property, may be subject to change.)

• סִידּוּר לִימּוּד ־ סֵֽדֶר תְּפִלּוֹת כְּמִנְהַג ק”ק סְפָרַדִּים עִם תּֽוֹסָפוֹת מִמִּנְהָגֵי אִיטַלְיָינִים וְאַשְׁכְּנַזִּים עִם תַּרְגּוּם לָדִינוֹ וְאַנְגְּלִית וְעִם הֲלָכוֹת וּמִנְהָגִים מֵאֶת אֵֽלִיָּה אֽוּתְנֶה = Siddúr Limmúd : a traditional-egalitarian learning siddur based on Sefaradí, Italiani & Ashkenazi sources, and with full transliteration, translations, instructions and explanations by Olve Utne
• The Converso Oratorio : musical representation of religious texts amongst the Western European Sefaradím

As publisher

• 2005 - Grace Aguilar: The Vale of Cedars, or The Martyr. Rockville Centre (Hassafon Publishing), 2005.[1]

Internet

As author

• 2001 - Olve Utne: «Jødisk musikktenkning i middelalderen : musikkens plass i jødisk filosofi, religion og vitenskap fra Philo til Gersonides» - Essay på musikkvitenskap hovedfag, 1991
  • (graduate paper (37 pp.); transl. of title: ‘Jewish musical thought in the Middle Ages : the rôle of music in Jewish philosophy, religion and science from Philo to Gersonides’)
• Hassafon - Scandinavian resource site for Jewish culture and religion
  • (contents in English, Norwegian (mainly nynorsk), Swedish and Danish with some Hebrew, Ladino and Yiddish)
• 2001 - Olve Utne: Jiddisch-norsk ordbok
  • (‘Yiddish/Norwegian online dictionary’)
• 2002 - Olve Utne: Innføring i HTML
  • (‘Introduction to HTML’)

As translator

• 2005 - Mišná: Massèkhet Berakhót (Norwegian (nynorsk))
• 2005 - Mišná: Massèkhet Berakhót (Norwegian (bokmål))

As publisher

• 2000: Hans Grøn Bull: «Et og Andet om Edøe-Præstegjeld paa Nordmøer» (1817)
• 2000: Edvard Langset (1867–1924): Folke-eventyr fraa Nordmør (1921)
• 2000: I.C.L. Lengnick: Grove tydske Løgne opdagede under en genealogisk Undersøgelse (1859)
• 2002: A.H. Bystrøm og Jakob Norby: Nyt norsk skole-atlas (ca 1900)
• 2002: P.E. Sivertsen: Maalet i Hemna (1906)

On the Ladino Wikipedia ...

Articles

Articles I have started and/or contributed significantly to include:

Gallery

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  Trifolia sp.. (Photo: Olve Utne, Rockville Centre, NY, July 2005.)
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  Echinacea purpurea flower with small, unidentified spider and ant. (Click on picture to view.) (Photo: Olve Utne, Rockville Centre, NY, July 2005.)
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  The lake of Stuvdalsvatnet in Moskenes, Lofoten, Norway. (Photo: Olve, 1994)
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  A man is holding a maṣṣáh. Illustration from the Copenhagen Haggadah an illuminated manuscript with calligraphy and illustrations by Philip Isac Levy, Hamburg/Altona, 1739.
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  Sephardi ḥaróset with apples, raisins, figs, pine kernels, red wine, orange juice and cinnamon. (Photo: Olve)
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  Temani (Yemeni Jewish) style shofar made from a kudu horn. (Photo: Olve)
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  Small Ashkenazi shofar from ram’s horn. (Photo: Olve)

External links

• Skrivarstuå - my “main” web site
• Safon.org - Scandinavian resource site for Jewish culture and religion (contents in English, Norwegian (mainly Nynorsk), Swedish and Danish with some Hebrew, Judíospanyol and Yiddish)