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Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… of the famous ‘Shoshanat Yaakov,’ which is sung in Ashkenazi synagogues after the evening reading of the … of Kozhnitz (Yiddish name of the town of Kozienice, in Eastern Central Poland). From there the niggun spread to …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… transliterated in Latin letters in an inconsistent mix of Ashkenazic and Sephardic pronunciations. None of the songs … such a Yiddish song. The modality is reminiscent of Middle-Eastern songs, such as the baladi songs of Syrian and … incorporate elements of Yemenite songs in combination with Eastern European motives – making this a paramount example …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a tradition that developed in … Russia, Ukraine and Poland and is now widely practiced in Ashkenazi congregations around the world. There are six sets of melodies or “modes” in the Eastern Ashkenazi tradition of Biblical cantillation; I will …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… 1. Bavaria/Frankfurt-Main 2. Venizia/Gorizia 3. Province Ashkenazi/Sephardi Ashkenazi/Sephardi Ashkenazi/Sephardi 3 … source apparently moved eastwards, as it contains many Eastern Ashkenazi texts added later in its margins. Through … Ashkenazi liturgical poems such as Shofet kol ha’aretz to Eastern Europe. When Shofet kol ha’aretz appeared in printed …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… in a liquid] once; on this night, twice. The traditional Ashkenazi learning tune Already in the late Middle Ages … phrase, a common learning technique in religious schools in Eastern Europe. Our website includes two illuminating … passing tones, 2, 7flat and 7 that hints to a more Eastern European character. …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of … rite ( minhag ’Ashkenaz ); we have not discovered any Eastern Ashkenazi ( minhag Polin and minhag Lita ) … whereas the left column is entitled Minhag Polen (i.e. Eastern Ashkenazi rite) and contains the piyyut ’Omnam ken …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… ne'esar' in his A Voice Still Heard: The Sacred Song of the Ashkenazic Jews (University Park and London, 1976, pp. … version of the melody, identified by Avenary as the “Eastern European” one, is quoted from Idelsohn in volume 8 … Thesaurus of Oriental Jewish Melodies , dedicated to the Eastern European Ashkenazi liturgy (1932, no. 211). This …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a brief general history of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of the cultural life of Jews in Latvia, … According to Karnes, folk songs were collected in Eastern Europe since the 1850s, decades after this practice … about Jewish cowboys (Gottlieb 2004, 64). Also Yemenite-Ashkenazi intermarriages in Israel during the 1930s and …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… that includes liturgical, para-liturgical and folk tunes of Eastern European and Babylonian Jewish communities. This … Stutschewsky … Cello - Violoncello … Klezmer music … Ashkenazim … Ashkenazi … Sephardi … Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… repository of sound and ethnographic documentation of Eastern European Jewish music and folklore. The complicated … Kiev,” Shofar 10, no. 4 [1992; Special Issue: Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies], pp. 31-48, quote in p. 34 and also …