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58. Ahashverosh Song
… Kerala melody for “ Mi Khamokha ve’En Kamokha ,” a lengthy Hebrew piyyut recounting the Purim story. Composed by the … ). Stanzas 3–5 are sung to an unidentified tune with a chanting quality, perhaps borrowed from a Chavittunatakam … section are repeated in the same pattern as those in the Hebrew song. Stanza 8, the final section, is sung to a …
17. Blessing Song
… of stanza 3 are a striking adaptation of phrases from the Hebrew “Morning Blessings” with which devout Jews begin each … of consulting each Malayalam variant) without knowing their Hebrew source—whereas Ruby Daniel (who certainly knew the … Sarah Cohen and Ruby Hallegua in Kochi, they used the same chanting melody that they had used for song 26, “After the …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… Hasidic tish-nigunim. Nigunim (Yiddish nign , from the Hebrew niggun —melody) are chants, some with words but most … origin, klezmer tunes, and melodies of Yiddish popular and Hebrew quasi-Hasidic songs that were instrumentally … repertoires: the liturgical music; the tradition of chanting Sabbath paraliturgical table-songs (zmires) that …
Haim Louk
… studies, piyyutim (Jewish liturgical poetry), traditional chanting of Psalms, and Hebrew grammar. The school, which played a central role in … piyyut . Sources: Louk, Haim. Interview by Edwin Seroussi (Hebrew). April 18, 1999. National Library of Israel. …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jewish history, including among other things the revival of Hebrew in Ottoman Palestine, the creation of a new secular … himself left a rather short autobiography in English and Hebrew published towards the end of his life, when his … The sky would fill with beautiful colors and hues enchanting us with the glory of their loveliness. While we …
Shefa Gold
… its practices to Judaism. Gold combined the old practice of Hebrew chanting with ideas from Buddhism by using biblical verses … order to achieve a deeply spiritual experience. She teaches Hebrew chanting at Kol Zimra, a formal training program in …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… of Jacobson’s article, one sees how the allure of Rossi’s Hebrew compositions to modern scholars impacts the … [2] I am thankful to Prof. Shulamit Elitzur from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for enlightening me about … in his honor’s thesis, “ Mikra Yiannena : Romaniote Chanting for Shabbat Evening in Greece and New York City,” …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch directly upon … descendants. The story’s primary textual rendering in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis XXII:1–19) is somewhat brief, barely … a faithful preserver of the Alsatian Jewish community’s chanting heritage ( minhag Elsass ) sings the one recording …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… Ashkenazi communities, a paraphrase in Yiddish followed the Hebrew text phrase by phrase, a common learning technique in … W. Binder, Seder Melodies: The Hagaddah Set to Music: in Hebrew and English for the Religious School, Congregational … composed tunes in Israel slowly substituted the traditional chanting of several sections of the Haggadah , the Four …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… ever since the day of the Renaissance Humanists. [1] The Hebrew chanting depends on the text, and is determined by the … which are given above or below each word in a printed Hebrew Bible, serve three functions: they indicate the …