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The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… . Birnbaum introduces in it the score of Kol haneshamah , a Hebrew piece by composer Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti … he knew via the copies in Birnbaum’s collection at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. Fast forward to the … pieces is easy to figure out due to the formulaic musical language of the period. Thus the addition of instrumental …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… mobile phone is the copy of a 78rpm record of a pizmon , a Hebrew para-liturgical hymn called “ Yom Yom Odeh ” (Every … pizmonim ) according to these musical forms and/or combined Hebrew sacred and poetic texts with melodies from … Sufi would have few problems understanding the musical language at a mawlid in the Egyptian Nile Delta town of …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… of spiritual reality in the late Sephardic piyyut ,' [In Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the … Figure 2. 'Bore 'ad ana,' Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew Poetry , Israel Davidson As shown above in the list … Zekhut Avot Synagogue in Jerusalem. He sang in a variety of languages and styles, sacred and secular in Neo-Aramaic (the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… in anthologies of Yiddish songs, the most prominent language of this corpus. Originally, the publication was … songs, it seems that the absence of a scholar familiar with Hebrew and Yiddish folk songs was detrimental to this … in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, Russian, Hebrew and Yiddish) usually impede access for the general …
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 … him, but when setting the text to music he turned to the language of the spiritual Christian music of his time. Is … [2] I am thankful to Prof. Shulamit Elitzur from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for enlightening me about …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… African Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew song, which had developed starting in the sixteenth … York: Global Village). Traditional patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen … literary genres in different languages, written and oral. A Hebrew song generates a popular saying combining Hebrew and …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… stage, the project consisted of the full bilingual (English/Hebrew characters) computerization of the original … Aleph cataloging system and in the Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew languages, engaged in this project from 1996 to 1999. Adler …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… klita ), where new Jewish immigrants are housed, taught Hebrew, supported in their first steps in the host society … to integrate into the Israeli economy and society, due to language barriers, skills that were more fitted to rural … community (the priests— qessotch in Amharic, qessim in the Hebrew adaptation), in effect dismantling the qessim ’s …
Armand Sabah
… shifting his musical focus towards Israeli singers and Hebrew songs, temporarily setting aside the Moroccan music … Himmelfarb High School in Jerusalem, Sabah enrolled at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, pursuing a B.A. in sociology … led to the inclusion of 'Haketia' (Spanish Moroccan language) songs in their repertoire, and they recorded two …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… family from Bombay who sang this melody to the religious Hebrew text, “Ki eshmerah Shabbat,” a song intended for the … (1998) in collaboration with Uri Amram. This book includes Hebrew poems created through the process of contrafactum: converting mundane songs in various languages to religious songs in the long tradition of …