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Piris Eliyahu
… the musical traditions of the Mountain Jews situated in the Eastern Caucasus. In 1989 he emigrated to Israel. After some … Bar-Ilan university, and taught in the Centre for Middle Eastern Classical Music in Musrara neighborhood, Jerusalem. In 2007 he established the department for Middle Eastern Classical Music in Head college, and a year later he …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… Assaf of Tel Aviv University. As of September 2022, at least eighty such articles have appeared in this blog and …
Shelomo Morag
… Zvi Institute for the study of Jewish communities in the East for several years. He was a member of the Academy of …
Kol beru’e ma’ala umata
… entered into the repertoire of some Hassidic dynasties in Eastern Europe, next to other Sephardi poems of kabbalistic …
Kamti lehallel leshem hael hanikhbad
… final one that ends on the first tone. This tune may have Eastern European Jewish origins. … The Western Sephardi …
Az yashir Moshe (Song of the Sea; Exodus 15) (2 versions)
… and better documented one in the Sephardi repertoire, East and West. The myth that this is the very same melody …
'Et sha'are ratzon
… substantially from the tune for the same text sung in the Eastern Sephardi communities. The last stanza of the poem ( …
Shir hashirim (Song of Songs 1: 1-4)
… synagogues with this special melody. Unlike the Eastern Sephardi communities who read this Biblical book on …
Berukhim atem qehal emmunai
… likely that this and many other Sephardi piyyutim from the Eastern Mediterranean were transmitted to the Portuguese … , no. 68). This may be an old Sephardi melody because the Eastern Sephardi versions show a certain modal affinity with …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… David Yellin Street to the south, and Mea Shearim to the east. It was one of several neighborhoods in Jerusalem named … wording is used in his article, “Musical Characteristics of East-European Jewish Folk-songs,” The Musical Quarterly 18, … . [21] This testimony contradicts or at least tempers speculations that Idelsohn’s sudden decision …