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Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… song” or singing game commonly performed among the Jewish communities of central and southern Yemen. It is sung at the … the wedding. [4] The h enna ceremony is practiced by Jewish communities throughout the Middle East and North Africa and, … h enna ceremony is still common today among the Yemenite communities of Israel, even though its cultural context and …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… in Hebrew and Yiddish, a common practice in American Jewish communities at the time. All in all, this Purim suite is a …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… are authoritative for other reasons, within individual communities and denominations. [26] … tension and aligned with practice. In my experience, some communities aim for uniformity of practice; this is … case when a new group of readers are being trained. Other communities welcome readers with differing melodies. [29] …
Haggai Ben-Shammai
… Bible exegesis and philosophy, history of Jewish communities in Islamic countries, and Islamic theology. He … such as the Ben Zvi Institute for the study of Jewish Communities in the East, the Center for the Study of …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… and an “alternative” tune (seven variants) preferred by the communities of the “Polish rite” (East of the Elbe and …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… performing the answers to the questions. In some Ashkenazi communities, a paraphrase in Yiddish followed the Hebrew …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… and vicissitudes in Spain that greatly affected the Jewish communities there. In 1140 Ibn Ezra immigrated to Italy, and … only among Sephardic Jews and those from the Middle-Eastern communities. It is possible to distinguish between two … of modern and old Hebrew songs intended for Israeli singing communities. [15] Its inclusion in such a book attests to …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… song Kikhlot yeini, which used to be performed in Jewish communities on Purim, especially in Germany, is one of those … led to print and manuscript distribution among Sephardic communities in the Ottoman Empire, independently of its …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… very specific liturgical practices from different Jewish communities in Morocco, in the face of their vanishing under …
Three Musical Ceremonies for Hôšanā Rabbah in the Jewish Community of Casale Monferrato (1732, 1733, 1735) (Hebrew)
… ' … 9426 … Hosha'nah Rabbah … Jewish communities … Manuscripts … Eighteenth (18th) Century … …