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The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer
… 1985. In the wake of this operation, the Israeli absorption authorities decided to gather the Qessoch ( Qessoch , …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… role in ending an era of Jewish life in Saloniki. Greek authorities viewed the fire’s devastation as an opportunity …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… the word nazir [eremite], leading some sources to name the author as Shlomo nazir) may be a later acquisition for, as … of the oldest songs in the [modern] Hebrew repertoire. The author's name, Shlomo, is spelled out in an acrostic; the … 1328). Written between 1319 and 1322 while its author was living in Catalonia, Masekhet Purim was printed …
Arba Otiyot
… To the poems of this collection, we added piyutim by other authors, which are related to the Moroccan Jewish tradition. …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… for revenge and salvation. Through artistic means, the author integrates Biblical references within the piyyut : … opening letters of each stanza create an acrostic of the author’s name, “A-B-R-H-M” (Abraham). The poetic meter is …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… Hilkhot seder Pessah , fol. 15a). This remark by the most authoritative source on the Ashkenazi musical minhag … along with along with Ira Eisenstein and Eugene Kohn, authored and selected the music for this Haggadah . The … Once the tune was detached from its original source and author, it was invested with the favorite labels with which …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… be As offerings brought continually. The name of the author of Shofet kol ha’aretz, Salomon, surfaces from the … acrostic – Shlomo hazaq ve’ematz – and for this reason the authorship of the poem is usually attributed to Salomon Ibn … such as Leopold Zunz have also suggested another possible author: Salomon bar Abun the young, (late twelfth century, …
Assaf Shelleg
… in art music written by and about Jews. Shelleg is the author of the award-winning book Jewish Contiguities and the …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… types of differences are common. [25] There is no single authoritative source for the melodies of Jewish … Individual notated and/or recorded versions derive authority from the people who produce them, from the lineage … (Kalib 2002; vol. 1, part 1, xi–xii). Other sources are authoritative for other reasons, within individual …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… to explore first the history of this publication and its author. Though Binder is principally remembered for his … of Yiddish folk songs, each of which attempted to be authoritative and complete. Its absence from any of those …