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Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… manuscript of qinot from Spain dated in 1481 ('Poetry as an expression of spiritual reality in the late Sephardic piyyut …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… that allows him to view the genre as a common mode of expression with its own variations across Jewish …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… composers, producers, and distributers. In great public expressions of this strange Jewish self-exclusion (such as …
Arabs - Jews - Music
… Music and music making was one area of cultural expression in which the Jewish-Arab encounter was intense. …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… active in Paris). The “German model” found diverse forms of expression that reflect local aesthetic sensibilities, …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… for whom playing had previously been more a means of self-expression, rather than of entertaining others. The chapter …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… others insist upon, “I have a friend up there,” two expressions in Arabic that sound highly similar, pronounced … sounds. The phrase, “above the palm tree” is a common Iraqi expression evoking a positive state of being, used … reply to the question, “How are you?” The prevalence of the expression and the equal prevalence of the popular song are …
Salamone Rossi’s HaShirim Asher LiShlomo in its Fourth Centennial (5383-5783)
… However, some readers (but not Harrán!) took this expression as rather offensive to the memory of the …
“Unter dem kinds Wiegele” – Beneath the Baby’s Cradle
… rhythm in the next phrase. This contemplative rhythmic expression is underlined with an idiomatic bowing called …
A Nigun on a soff (chassidisch) – A Tune without Ending
… chords in the very two opening bars announces a bold expressionistic harmonic language. The foreign notes and …