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Jeff Klepper
… Jeff Klepper is an American Jewish Cantor, and one of the pioneers of the … singer-songwriter style that took over American synagogue music during the second half of the 20th century. He started playing the guitar in 1962 and was a song-leader in …
Shefa Gold
… movement. She lives and works mainly in New Mexico. As a part of the new age era in the US during the Seventies, Shefa … Energy & Ecstatic Practice. She is a composer of spiritual music and produced more than 10 albums. One of her famous … in Judaism with Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, and Native American spiritual traditions: …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… beat. The easily recognizable pasté often invites group participation in live performances. Unlike its relatively … history is complex, revealing a number of interrelated musical and textual settings. Looking into the information … “Fog Elna Khel [!] (Salamu aleikum).” Account of Syrian-American composer’s exposure to Ghazali on a TV show that …
Rabbi Hanna Tiferet Siegel
… Jewish Studies Degree at Boston Hebrew College in 2003. Her music style was inspired by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach who … Shonna Husbands-Hankin, “ Soul Brothers: A Memoir ”, in American Jewish History , Vol. 100, No. 4, October 2016, … melodies: https://www.oysongs.com/products/songs.cfm?artist_id=542&EzPage=4 * The picture was taken from …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… attention because it pairs the song with its counterpart “Had gadya” linguistically. Moreover, the mixture of … remarks refer to the two main sharqi versions documented musically, the ones from the ancient cities of Aleppo … recorded on October 19, 1991. Uri related that the famous American Jewish educator, Dr. Alexander M. Dushkin …
A Liturgy within the Liturgy: The German Torah Service in Past and Present
… Theater und Medien in Hannover (HMTMH) And the Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of … project. This study session will introduce its participants to some of the preliminary results of this join … among German-speaking Jews throughout Europe and in their American and Israeli diasporas. … "Das Pfingstfest …
65. El baile de los falsos (Sida Musafija)
… originates in an 1895 zarzuela (lyrics by P. Cadenas; music by Pedro Badía) and is not strictly related to the … as early as 1904 (a Saint Petersburg edition; the first American edition of 1905 has English lyrics by C.H. Taylor). … recorded, paraphrased and reworked countless times by many artists (including the young Maurice Chevalier) and in …
Raza Deshabbat
… Raza Deshabbat is the second part of a kabbalist Aramaic text that begins with the words … the Sabbath). This rendition was composed by Russian/American cantor Pierre Pinchik (1895-1971). … Or Haganuz: … … Ashkenazi liturgy … Chazzanut … Contemporary Israeli Music … Contemporary Liturgy … Piano accompaniment … …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… and society. Yet something of that texts and tears, martyrs and saints approach still governs much of the … in the Jewish past. A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern … Palestine, Lithuanian Jewish South Africa, and Midwestern American Reform Judaism. What is missing is a picture of the …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared … differ in their length and in some details. A third, partial autobiography in German was located in 2017 in a … funds for the 5th and partly for the 6th volume, but the American Council of Learned Societies decided to grant me a …