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Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… Yom yom odeh la-el asher bakhar banu [Day after day I thank god who has chosen us]. This section leads to a middle part … of a refrain: Al Har Sinai, et Torato [Upon Mt. Sinai, (God gave us) the Torah]. Upon closer listening, one notices … rendition of the opening of Adonai hu ha-Elohim [My Lord is God], a Jewish hymn that Mourad recorded in the 1920s, i.e. …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… emotion. “I” may be dreaming, “you” may have a nice bonnet, God may bless America, but individuals generally walk …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… by singer, accordionist, composer and teacher Flory Jagoda (1923–2021), who at the time of this writing has just … this remarkable Sarajevo-born Sephardic-American artist. Jagoda, slightly later in her life, became one of the most … a la mano” as a traditional folksong, and rightly so. Jagoda first recorded the song in her early album “Kantikas di …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… stimulating the union of the spheres or emanations of the Godhead. In spite of opinions against its recitation, …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… the desired land of [their] fathers” in supplication to God for redemption ( ge’ula ). The text focuses on a return …
Hin’ni Haaniyah Mimaas (Here I am, poor in worthy deeds)
… wearing a long beard. Instead, he inserted a request that God accept the cantor’s supplications as the prayer of …
Cantata Ebraica in Dialogo
… of a group of people chanting hymns to the glory of God and "redoubling" in joy and fervour. They belong to the …
Shire hatunah: Anokhi Adonai Elohekha; Ve-ze ha-zman yavo Mashiah; Yiftah Adonai ba-Torah.
… ha-zman yavo Mashiah; Yiftah Adonai ba-Torah. I, your god; And at that time Messiah will come; And god will open the Torah. Performed by Benjamin Hafrosi from …
El lifne [sic] har Galil (shir hatunah)
… Iran (Shiraz) El lifne [sic] har Galil (shir hatunah) . The god appearing in front of the Mount of Galil (wedding song). … Yigdal Elohim hai ve-yishtabeah [sic]. May the living God be great and praised. Performed by Benjamin Hafrosi from … items. He opens with El yivneh ha-Galil [or "har Galil"] (God shall build the Galilee [ or 'the mountain of Galilee') …
El Jiwneh Hagalil (Lied der galilaischen Arbeiter) – God will Build the Galilee (Galilee Worker’s Song)
… … El Jiwneh Hagalil (Lied der galilaischen Arbeiter) – God will Build the Galilee (Galilee Worker’s Song) …