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Ten Paradoxes and Four Dilemmas of Studying Jewish Music
Emphasizes the vastness of Jewish music in terms of time and place and therefore the…
Steiger Ahava Rabah
The Ahava Rabah Steiger is also known as Freygish. When the prayer includes a range of…
Yiddish Theater: A Love Story
Directed by Dan Katzir
This film tells a dual tale. The first is of Zypora Spaisman,…
Had Gadya
Written in Aramaic, Had Gadya appears at the very end of the Passover Haggadah.…
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
The album includes folksongs in Ladino that Sephardic Jews used to sing in events of the…
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
In 1958, on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk…
Experiencing Devekut
“Among hasidim the niggun not only reveals the state of mind of…
Rabbi Shlomo Carlibach's music in it's cultural context: 1950-2005
An overview of the most influential figures in the field of religious music to emerge…
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
If you have ever searched for Hatikvah online, you were surely exposed to a barrage of…
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
Introduction
Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other…