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Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… text for easy online search and mobile viewing. Idelsohn's Hebrew and English biographies, written in the early 1930s, … in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared in Die Chasanim Welt 3, no. 15, (Sh’vat, … here to English. Both were reprinted in their original language in Idelsohn’s memorial volume, Yuval 5 (1986). …
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 … I was surprised to hear them speaking in the Hebrew language and what amazed me even more was hearing the …
Kol beru’e ma’ala umata
… of Prof. Juda Leon Palache. Prof. Palache was a lecturer of Hebrew Language and Literature at the University of Amsterdam since … Cardozo, it was Zwi Werblowski, Professor Emeritus of the Hebrew University, who transmitted this tune to Leon Palache …
Shelomo Morag
… Shlomo Morag was an Israeli professor at the department of Hebrew Language at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Morag founded the Jewish …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… contributions remain sealed to those who do not command the Hebrew language. Eliyahu Hacohen was perhaps among the most notable … lectures about the most diverse aspects of the modern Hebrew song (aka Zemer ‘ivri or Shirei Eretz Israel ) in its …
38. Ĕṇṇi Ĕṇṇi Tiṟttu Dinam (The Fifth of Iyyar)
… declaration of Israeli independence on the fifth day of the Hebrew month of Iyyar May 14 1948 when the British rulers … Immigration … India … Indian Jewery … Jewish communities … Languages … Women … Women singing … Women's songs … Israel … …
28. Vāl̲vanna Vāl̲vum (Blessing Song)
… and it echoes a number of the morning blessing in the Hebrew liturgy. Text May all blessings be upon you; May you … Immigration … India … Indian Jewery … Jewish communities … Languages … Women … Women singing … Women's songs … Israel … …
Nehemia Allony
… a researcher in the fields of Jewish studies, literature, language and Hebrew poetry in the Middle Ages, founder and director of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts (1950 - 1963), served as a professor at …
El lifne [sic] har Galil (shir hatunah)
… hashkama be-parsit . Early morning prayers in Persian language. Yigdal Elohim hai ve-yishtabeah [sic]. May the … [ or 'the mountain of Galilee') a widespread responsorial Hebrew song from the Levant. It originates in a song in the … morning prior to the opening of the formal prayers. Persian-Hebrew poets like the 14th century poet Shaheen Shirazi or …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… take on prophecy and genius. This is one of the earliest Hebrew writings published by Idelsohn (February 7, 1908) … was, as mentioned, the founder of the Jewish theatre in the language of exile [galut]. Now, after thirty years [since … as ‘Shulamis,’ ‘Bar Kochbe,’ and ‘Yemos ha-meshiech,’ as [Hebrew novelist] Abraham Mapu [1808-1867] at his time; this …