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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis collection …
Abraham Salman
… Abraham Salman (born Shaharabani) was a qanun virtuoso, one of the finest players of this instrument in the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a …
El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… Joel Bresler’s magnificent collection of 78 rpm recordings of Sephardic music is well-known to all …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… Cleaning up my office desk towards Passover 5783 (2023) I found a note that Mr. Moshe …
The Idelsohn Project
… political? The best-known Jewish song in the world is “Hava Nagila” (“Come, let us rejoice”). This Hebrew ode to happiness surfaces without fail at weddings and bar mitzvahs across the globe as a …
“Unter dem kinds Wiegele” – Beneath the Baby’s Cradle
… Stutschewsky described the Yiddish lullaby as a genre as follows: Here lies the moment for a gentle song, to which toddlers listen attentively, …
Nahôn libbo is hujire – Whole-heartedly is the fearful believer
… קוֹנִי The piyyut Nahôn libbo by Rabbi Nissim Mazliah of Baghdad (end of the eighteen century to beginning of the nineteenth …
Lied ohne Worte (chassidisch)
… This piece is based on Arno Nadel ’s arrangement of a Hasidic tune published … Chassidisches Lied In Stutschewsky’s album the order of the title was turned upside down, Lied ohne Worte …
Sheh naaleh be-shem tov u-gedulah ke-birkat ha-milah. Omen. Zemer li-verit milah.
… <…> Sheh naaleh be-shem tov u-gedulah ke-birkat ha-milah. Omen. Zemer li-verit milah. <…> … will arise with the good and great name to the blessing of alliance. Omen. Song for the circumcision ceremony. Performed by Shlomo ben Aga …
[E-erokh nivi. Mi-kehilah]. (Berit-milah)
… nivi. Mi-kehilah]. (Berit-milah) [I will raise my harp. From the community]. (Circumcision ceremony). Performed by hazzan Halevi [from Aleppo] accompanied by a few …