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Mitsve Tants
… as the final ceremony of a Hassidic wedding, after the feast. Male members of the two families are invited to dance … was in use since the 14th century and probably migrated to eastern Europe in the 18th century at the latest. In Jewish …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… result of developments in the musical culture of the Middle East in general, and in Jerusalem in particular over the … Sephardi Jewish liturgy and piyyut singing in the Middle East, went into decline, and that of Arabic, and … for all the Jerusalem Sephardim and members of other Middle Eastern Jewish congregations (such as the Persian, …
Im nin'alu
… of the third. The melody of this version is one of the least known to which this song is sung. It is simple and …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… preferred by the communities of the “Polish rite” (East of the Elbe and Moldau river) (see image no.3). A … their reminiscences of Biblical chant. The “alternative” Eastern European melody of Shofet kol ha’arez bears the … melodies, the “common” or Western and the “alternative” or Eastern, one have some common features: interesting motivic …
Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… Purim, Purim lanu” by the Jews of North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. The present version, performed by the …
Prayer for the state
… cantors regarding its musical performance. Since the Eastern Ashkenazi cantorial tradition was the one adopted as …
Hanukkah Blessings
… Z ur Tune: New Facts for its History, in Encounters of East and West in Music (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, …
The “Hebrew Melody” by Joseph Achron: New version for voice, violin and piano premiered in Jerusalem, January 8, 2009
… Folk Music.” Later on, Achron returned to this work at least twice, creating new versions which are much less known. …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… also in the Yemenite rite where it has been found since at least the early eighteenth century (see, manuscript Berlin - … is that this Western Ashkenazi source apparently moved eastwards, as it contains many Eastern Ashkenazi texts added later in its margins. Through …
Ner Haviv, Ner Na'eh
… connected to the ‘Ades’ synagogue , an important center of eastern hazzanut . Among other songs Avidany wrote ‘Nagila … songs that were written by poets of the Haskalah in Eastern Europe, and later on in Erets Yisrael and in the …