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Four Melodies for Four Questions
… kits, many of them produced in Israel. The subject of this article is the singing of the section known as the Four … minhag (custom) singles out the Four Questions as a particularly musical moment in the seder . Until the mid-20 … Jews learned many metric Haggadah tunes taught in kindergartens, schools and even in the army. Until immigration to …
Max Lempel
… with Lampel) The Max Lampel Archive at the Music Department of the National Library of Israel, Mus 101 … …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… immigrated to Italy, and from there to France and to other parts of Christian Europe. Toward the end of his life he … Context “Eli Eliyahu” is sung on Saturday night as part of the havdalah (separation) ceremony. Havdalah is a … intensifies with the coming of the Sabbath and with the departure of the additional “soul at rest,” traditionally …
Arba Otiyot
… of the Jews of the Tafilalt (Berb. Tāfīlālt) region, in particular to the lore of the venerated tzaddiq (Heb. …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… Sephardic milieu. The lyrics cover an apparently earthly topic, but do so with concealed and semi-overt … the four stanzas which contain the acrostic and does not start with the refrain. In an important study of this song, … become Drawers of water The Zionist version We shall start from the end of the story with the “Zionist” chapter of …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… fire. Today, the upscale Electra Palace hotel sits in the heart of the city where another Jewish school, the Alliance … of the lyrics within a summary of the fire: “The fire started in a quarter named Agua Muev a and expanded through the city until …
The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer
… clandestine aliyah (immigration) of Ethiopian Jews that started in 1979 became publicized in the wake of Operation … a project of systematic recordings of the Qessoch – which started at Machon Meir in the 1980s – turned into an ambitious …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… me to Rabbi Atiya. He was for me a teacher and a research partner, and a figure that inspired great admiration and … paytan , an expert in the religious poetry sung as part of the liturgy, in paraliturgical events as well as in … research. Our personal bond was from its inception one of partnership, of sharing knowledge and resources, and …
Silvia Glocer
… at the University of Buenos Aires, in the faculty of the arts, where she also received her doctorate in History and Theory of the Arts. For her doctoral thesis, she did research on Jewish …
Bernardo Feuer
… was born on May 1 st , 1910 in Lemberg [Lviv], a city then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire but now in Ukraine. He … Kalmele Weitz, Oscar Haller, Aaron Gutman, and Leibele Schwartz. The Hazormir choir repertoire was not exclusively … and included arrangements of Jewish folk songs, choral parts of operas in the original language or translated to …