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Yemenite Qasīd Songs (Hebrew)

… the Exodus, Hannah and her seven sons, etc. There are also contemporary stories, like tales of the social life of the …

The Ala-Instrument: its Identification and Role

… link is claimed. The giant cylindrical drum has died out in contemporary Iraq; thus comparisons with other musical …

Figure 2: 'Enosh ʽad daka tashev' with the Indication Be-niggun ‘Akedah

Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac

… , which had received a new name, probably due to the contemporary popularity of the songs (Freimann 1923, 33). No … performance guidelines often bear the imprint of their contemporary reality, and do not necessarily reflect the … desire to imbue the ancient Jewish melody with contemporary decorum led them to coerce the original lack of …

In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover

… stripped from its concealed socialist overtones, in the contemporary American Jewish repertoire. A second, …

Moshe Attias

… within the Israeli musical scene. Unlike most of his contemporary Moroccan Jewish artists, Mwijo remained … while rooted musical and textual genres interlace with contemporary urban styles from diverse sources. This …

Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot

… day. As a result, we have an example that has survived in a contemporary performative context. Here is a recording of …

Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record

… article as well as to anticipate my focus on the record’s contemporary social interpretation. Today, the famous record … search for the song’s historical roots (in Aleppo) but its contemporary cultural and socio-political interpretation. … on the narratives that are mobilized to integrate Jews into contemporary Arab imagination, concerned their need to …