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A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… period, apparently predating its use among Sephardic Jews. Manuscript 85 of the Archivio Storico Comunale of … catalogue. The persistence of our poem in the heart of the German soil and its presence further East, in Poland, is … documented in 1724 and 1733) found in South and West Germany, West of the Rhine river (See image no. 1) and in …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… in the seder . Until the mid-20 th century, most Ashkenazi Jews intoned this text with a pentatonic learning tune … Nathanson, 1939 In contrast to this German-oriented lineage of the learning tune, Abraham Z. … into the Ashkenazi dominated milieu, Sephardic and Oriental Jews learned many metric Haggadah tunes taught in …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… be performed in Jewish communities on Purim, especially in Germany, is one of those songs. Attributed to Salomon Ibn … 1912 (De Rossi 697), which is dated to the 15 th century in Germany or France. The song is in fol. 21a-b and follows the … below, attesting that it was known among the Baghdadi Jews until the last generation of immigrants to Israel in …
Between Tradition and Modernity
… Maier Levi and his times as well as of the entire Southern German liturgical Jewish tradition round out the 470 pages … detailed transcription of the synagogue chant of the South German Jews. On this chant tradition Maier Levi clearly was an …
Felix Mendelssohn - Gustav Mahler: Two Borderline Cases of German-Jewish Assimilation
… 9546 … Mendelssohn … Mahler, Gustav … Mahler … German Jews … Jewish composers … Assimilation … Austria … Germany … Felix Mendelssohn - Gustav Mahler: Two Borderline …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… [1] It has been retold by generation after generation of Jews in various vernacular languages, in both oral and … emerged during the tenth century in present day southern Germany and northern France. However, it also acquired two … of many types of piyyutim , yet they are rare in German literature (Fleischer 2007, 470; Goldschmidt 1965, 9; …
Moshe Attias
… he had towards the way the State of Israel treated Moroccan Jews (see more below), he remained a local patriot. A … Moroccan was Jewish or Muslim) invited him to perform in Germany. Mwijo adamantly refused to play in Germany because of the Holocaust – even after an offer of …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… materials in Holland, Italy, France, Great Britain and Germany, not only in libraries and secured archives but also … texts “elevates” Jewish musical culture, and introduced the Jews to the mainstream European art music narrative even …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… in the sixteenth century that continues amongst Syrian Jews today (Kligman 2009; Shelemay 1998). “ Yom Yom Odeh ” … affiliations today (including my right to obtain a second German passport and travel freely between Israel and … which was supported by a doctoral studentship of the German National Academic Foundation and the Mildred Loss …
Stefanie Mockert
… Her studies focus on the liturgical music of Southern German Jews, bringing in an interdisciplinary perspective inspired … “ From Berlin to Jerusalem and back - The letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson- Kiwi (1908-1992) ” …