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Assaf Shelleg
… Assaf Shelleg is senior lecturer of musicology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was previously the … in the Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department at Washington University … cultural chain reactions this dislocation catalyzed in Hebrew culture through the 1970, the …
Haggai Ben-Shammai
… and great-grandchildren. Ben-Shammai studied at the Hebrew University in the departments of Arabic Language and Literature, history of the Islamic countries … Professor Emeritus of Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University. He has served as co-director of the …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… Yemen Shofet kol ha’aretz belongs to the medieval poetic Hebrew genre called pizmon that is characterized by a … the present-day availability of medieval manuscripts of Hebrew liturgical orders allow for a fundamental revision of … The melody itself is not based on a “universal musical language” (Avenary’s term) like pentatonics, but uses a …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Friedman’s compositional corpus includes music for the Hebrew liturgy, English translations and interpretations of … octave leap at the opening of a melody—appears in modern Hebrew compositions in which the singing subject appeals … 1990s and signals the entrance of this globalized musical language into liberal American synagogues. By bringing this …
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 … since then in at least eight editions in several different languages. Goldfarb’s version was reproduced …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of Rabbi … the relations and differences between the Moroccan Arab and Hebrew traditions of Andalusian music, and by his profound knowledge of the Hebrew language and the hermeneutics of sacred poetry. Above all, …
Melody and Poetry in the “Kuzari” (Hebrew)
… manuscript readings. Nor does Judah Ibn Tibbon's mediaeval Hebrew translation of the Arabic original resolve the difficulties. The context is a comparison of the Hebrew and Arabic languages. After discussing the uses of the various terms in …
Idelsohn: The Founder and Builder of the Science of Jewish Music – A Creator of Jewish Song
… she met her future husband, then a rabbinic student at the Hebrew Union College. They were married in 1912 upon their … towards traditional Jewish observances, the Hebrew language, and the idea Of Jewish peoplehood' in …
The Hallelôt in the Yemenite Dīwān (Hebrew)
… quantitative meter; their origins are usually unknown; the language is Hebrew, rarely Aramaic, but never Arabic. It should be noted … community … Diwan … The Hallelôt in the Yemenite Dīwān (Hebrew) … Avner Bahat …
A.Z. Idelsohn and the Study of the Traditional Pronunciations of Hebrew (Hebrew)
… is well-known for his pioneering work in the field of Hebrew musicology, primarily for his recording and research … scholarly world in his monumental ten-volume Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies (1914-1932). Through his work on … of Hebrew, a variety which he considers to be a 'living language.' Living in the period which saw the transformation …