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Karev Yom
… guttural letters. It appears that he wanted to bypass his German accent and sound as “sabra” as possible. A … Shlomo Ravitz, at that time the chief cantor of the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv. The music provided by Ravitz for our … melody, recorded in the National Sound Archives by various German and Swiss informants, reflects a non-Hassidic …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… how its practice at ceremonies of Jewish institutions, synagogues, schools and youth movements, as well as its … Different scholars cited two nineteenth-century patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a possible source of inspiration: …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… the famous ‘Shoshanat Yaakov,’ which is sung in Ashkenazi synagogues after the evening reading of the megillah (Scroll … Zionist circles, especially youth movements in Poland and Germany, adopted this wordless Hassidic niggun as a hora … Feig, Goldie Malavsky and Freydele Oysher, Journal of Synagogue Music 32, pp. 51-79. Mazor, Yaacov. 2005. 'Min …
Moritz Rosenhaupt
… By Edwin Seroussi German cantor and composer Moritz/Moses Rosenhaput was born … (today Offenbach-Hundheim, in the Rheinland-Pfalz State, Germany). His father, Jacob, was a rabbi and teacher; he … was one of the major codifiers of the South German synagogue liturgy in musical notation and yet his name does …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Schönberg 1927 provides a condensed and rich analysis of German-Jewish (Western Ashkenazi) cantillation based on … Cohon, Baruch Joseph. 1950. “The Structure of the Synagogue Prayer-Chant.” Journal of the American … 2002. The Musical Tradition of the Eastern European Synagogue . Vol. 1, Introduction: History and Definition . …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… recalls the close association between Temple sacrifices and synagogue prayers. Since the loss of the Temple, prayer has … 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
… Coopersmith, Songs of My People (Chicago: The Anshe Emet synagogue, 1937). In spite of Coopersmith’s notation with a … publication, for he was the cantor at the Reconstructionist synagogue which Eisenstein’s father founded in New York … Nathanson, 1939 In contrast to this German-oriented lineage of the learning tune, Abraham Z. …
Bernardo Feuer
… Feuer was a child. His father worked as the caretaker of a synagogue and the family had four children: Alter, Miriam, … Feuer formed a liturgical choir in the Dr. Max Nordau synagogue. In 1937, he founded another choir, which he named … 1959 Feuer also worked with the Sephardic Jewish and the German Jewish (Bnei Israel) community in Chile, and promoted …
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 … the most extensive and detailed transcription of the synagogue chant of the South German Jews. On this chant tradition Maier Levi clearly was …
The Training of Hazzanim in Nineteenth-Century Germany
… Nineteenth-century Germany witnessed a fundamental change in the process by … phenomenon since the later eighteenth century of individual German cantors, here and there, notating their own … and the 'adot hamizrah , namely the oral transmission of synagogue chant. However, starting in the 1830s and 1840s, …