(659 results found)
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… arrived in Amsterdam around 1614, invited to serve as hazzan (cantor) of the new, flourishing Portuguese Jewish …
Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… scholarship and methodology. … Chanukkah … Hanukkah … Hazzan, Hazan, Chazzan, Chazzanut, Hazzanim, Hazzanim – Cantors, Cantors – Hazzanim, …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… Addenda From Enrico Fink (October 6, 2020) on hazzan Carlo Schonheit: Carlo (known to everybody in Ferrara … spot. From Dr. Francesco Spagnolo (December 17, 2020), on hazzan Azelio Servi: A quote from the journal Il Vessillo … attenzione la predica rabbini, con fervore gli abituali Hazzanim, l’ex vice Rabbino sig. Salomone Servi, Raimondo …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… In the second half of the B phrase Heymann engages in a hazzanic flurry that is uncharacteristic of other versions. …
Ben-Zion (Yisrael Noach) Kapov-Kagan
… remainder of his life. In the United States, he served as hazzan at the Ocean Parkway Jewish Center in New York, and … died on the second day of Rosh Hashanah in 1953. … Hazan, Chazzan, Chazzanut, Hazzanut, Hazzanim, Hazzanim – Cantors, Cantors – …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… in a manuscript dated 1702 by Moshe Bekhar Hacohen, the hazzan of the Levantine community of Venice in the 18th … we will examine another interesting source compiled by the hazzan David ben Abraham Meldola (c. 1685-1745), who would …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… 2000. “Maier Levi of Esslingen, Germany: A Small-Town Hazzan in the Time of the Emancipation and His Cantorial … University of Jerusalem. _____. 2002. “The Training of Hazzanim in Nineteenth-Century Germany.” Yuval 7: 299–367. …

The Influence of Choral Elements on the Formation and Development of the Piyyût Genres (Hebrew)
… of a small group of proficient singers attached to the hazzan in order to complement and lend variety to his … service and to reduce the exclusive and showy role of the hazzan (thus also of the choir). The same attitude also …

My Life: A Sketch
… sweeter, and their singing was with more Jewish feeling. … Hazzan, Hazan, Chazzan, Chazzanut, Hazzanut, Hazzanim, Cantors – Hazzanim, Cantors … …

The Training of Hazzanim in Nineteenth-Century Germany
… witnessed a fundamental change in the process by which a hazzan learned his art. The increasing phenomenon since the … oral transmission, from one generation to the next, from a hazzan skilled in the musical tradition to a young novice … further attenuated the integrity of the oral tradition. … Hazzan, Hazan, Chazzan, Chazzanut, Hazzanim, Hazzanim – …