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Yemenite Qasīd Songs (Hebrew)
… Qasid differs from the other types in content and in language. The poems are folk songs, light, entertaining, and … so that the simpler people and the women, who did not know Hebrew very well, could understand them. Those who copied … the qasid 'abda' birabbi di kalaq is published here, with Hebrew translation and apparatus. The musical treatment of …
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 … generation after generation of Jews in various vernacular languages, in both oral and written forms (Spiegel …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… both in the Yiddish-speaking world as well as in the modern Hebrew song repertoire in the Land of Israel. I am grateful … College Archive of Jewish Sound; Dr. Michael Lukin from the Hebrew University; Maestro Raymond Goldstein; and Prof. … the Arbeter Ring’s music directors. Probably the innocent language of the song and its catchy melody led to its …
Moshe Attias
… to Maghrebi Arabic, with a Meknesi accent, as the main language of communication. This very remarkable feature demonstrates his resistance to the Hebrew-centered ethos of the Zionist movement and the … culture that emerged from it. Even when he recorded in Hebrew, as he did, the language was profusely peppered with …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… Istanbul. Here we encounter our song as a piyyut , with a Hebrew text, titled “Adonay hu elohenu” (The Lord is our God). It is fair to note that this Hebrew title is identical in meaning to the Judeo-Spanish … but are addressed by Seroussi in his forthcoming Spanish-language article which illuminate theories regarding the …
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 …