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Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… far greater than that accorded to it by other Jewish communities (Weinberger 1998, 5–6, 184; Fraenkel, Gross, and … chants used for texts retelling the ‘Akedah in some Jewish communities (Levi 1963). Levi’s brief discussion of the … earliest piyyut portraying the persecution of the Jewish communities in the Rhineland in 1096. It is also considered …
Moshe Attias
… international recognition and popularity among the various communities in Israel, Mwijo remained deeply anchored in the …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… Eloheinu” was circulating within the Italian Sephardic communities as early as the beginning of the 18th century, … between Hebrew and Judeo-Spanish texts among the Sephardic communities of Northern Italy. The Hebrew song in Seder … has worked its way through a diverse array of Sephardic communities, each singing a version that is slightly …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common source, Birnbaum … in written music sources of historical European Jewish communities. Driven by a nationalist-oriented agenda to … comprehensive search for manuscripts from decimated Jewish communities. Also trained as a librarian and paleographer, …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… fit in here? If historical records had allowed the Jewish communities that emigrated from countries such as Syria, … Aleppian ḥazzanim on the liturgical styles of the Sephardic communities in Jerusalem (1997), couched his belief in … one of the founders of the “ Kehillot Sharot [Singing Communities]”, a nation-wide project that brings together …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… music, most particularly, the music of religious and ethnic communities in British Palestine. In the footsteps of Robert … and non-religious music of the non-European Jewish communities whose members relocated to Israel after 1948. …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… for the Ninth of Av among the Sephardic and Oriental Jewish communities. The identity of the author is unknown, except … Poetry , “Bore ‘ad ana” was mostly known in the Sephardic communities of Italy (Venice, Modena, Livorno) since the … great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, emphasizing Spanish-Portuguese and North …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… devoted attention to the collection of songs from minority communities which inhabited Latvia, namely, Jews, Roma, … performed by members of substantial, centuries-old Jewish communities whose vernacular musics have remained largely … project and be readily available to various scholarly communities as well as the public. Each Jewish song should …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… function, to another minhag , that of the Romaniote (Greek) communities . We should notice that other verses of … of Festivals. Recordings of cantors from three different communities in Italy follow here: Your browser does not … shows that singing “Elohim hashivenu” is not exclusive to communities of the Italian peninsula. His recording of …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… that begins with the emancipated and assimilated Jewish communities of the Old World and ends with the integration into the formerly East European Jewish communities of the New World. But as Tesler-Mabé clarifies, … as German, and not only in relation to Jewish communities, but also to Canadians in general. That being …