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A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… century Ashkenazi Mahzor at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy in St. Petersburg D 101 (F … the old-fashioned pentatonics with their reminiscences of Biblical chant. The “alternative” Eastern European melody of … on the High Holidays. The use of a prominent motif of Biblical chant as the final cadence of most Shofet versions …

Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other Biblical texts in liturgical contexts—has attracted the … melodies or “modes” in the Eastern Ashkenazi tradition of Biblical cantillation; I will characterize each mode with a … 2006, Tenzer and Roeder 2011, and the journal Analytical Studies of World Music ) and as scholars of Jewish music …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… liturgical music of American Reform Judaism and his work on Biblical cantillation, he was also one of the most important … “Mt. Meron tunes,” as they became called following the studies of this repertoire by Andre Hajdu and Yaacov Mazor. … Edwin Seroussi, the Joyce Z. Greenberg Professor of Jewish Studies, in the winter of 2016 at the Department of Music of …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… Johanna. “Bridal Songs and Ceremonies from San’a.” In Studies in Biblical and Jewish Folklore , edited by R. Patai, F.L …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… text not only fails to acknowledge many earlier substantial studies on the subject but, in spite of a short discussion … of Hatikvah . Alternatively, scholars have invocated the Biblical ‘Vision of the Dried Bones’ (Ezekiel 37, 11-12) as … Central and Eastern Europe. On the other hand, the “Biblical” thesis speaks more about a desire to ground the …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… number is given a symbolic meaning that is connected to Biblical figures, concepts, and objects related to Judaism: … Samuel. Sefer HaNigunim . Brooklyn: Ḥevrat Nihoah, 1985. Studies Bohlman, Philip and Otto Holzapfel. The Folk Songs … in Israel and among the nations,” Assufot: Annual of Jewish Studies 2 (5748[1988]), 201-226. (In Hebrew) Habermann, A.M. …

«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… later how they spoke constantly of “me personally, my studies at the conservatory and compositions, my potential … focus on was his Jewish name: “Solomon! Why, it smells Biblical!” He kept repeating the name “Solomon,” Rosowsky … fixation with the idea of Jews as a primitivist link to biblical Hebraic glory. This image – shared by other …
Para Para
… of the book's purposes was to become a gateway leading to biblical studies. They therefore added a few biblical stories that were adapted to a child's level. …
‘I’m Sorry, It’s Yom Kippur’: Atonement through Punk (and Traditional Jewish Music)
… while usually not accepting of trans people on the basis of Biblical dicta, has had a long history of a broader spectrum … ascribed to their original gender. [3] Different biblical interpretations, specifically of the two versions … [4] See: Whitfield, Stephen J., “Yentl.” Jewish Social Studies 5,1-2 (1998-1999), pp. 154-176. [5] The subject was …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… century Ashkenazi Mahzor at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy in St. Petersburg D 101 (F … the old-fashioned pentatonics with their reminiscences of Biblical chant. The “alternative” Eastern European melody of … on the High Holidays. The use of a prominent motif of Biblical chant as the final cadence of most Shofet versions …