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The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… above the synagogue entrance that quotes Psalm 5:8 in Hebrew: “'In the abundance of Thy loving kindness will I … of the synagogue. The words “will I come into thy house” in Hebrew are Avoh Beitcha, which, when contracted, becomes … which holds rare and valuable collections of Sephardic manuscripts. The Synagogue's Praying Style (Nusah) The …
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… morphology, and prosody of Yiddish combine German and Hebrew components, and in Eastern Europe also elements of … should not sing him songs and melodies of the gentiles or Hebrew melodies that are meant for God. However, if there … , a cantorial piece found in one of the earliest surviving manuscripts (1744), (Nadel manuscript, RISM 221, Adler 1989: …
Aharon Amram
… best teachers, while also learning Math, History and Hebrew in a Jewish school. In 1950, as part of 'Operation … Kippur, and started to research dozens of Tajs (Yemenite manuscripts of the Torah) in Israel, London, and New York, … he conducted, Amram noticed many mistakes in the Taj manuscripts, especially in the later ones. He researched to …
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… figure in which each of their hands makes the shape of the Hebrew letter Shin ( ש ) , and bring their hands together so … of the music of the Priestly Blessing exists. A Venetian manuscript dated from 1714/1715, located today at Hebrew union College in Cincinnati, contains four notations …
Bin Tavinu Liqnot Bina Ha'azinu
… in Damascus, Safed, and Gaza. He was one of the greatest Hebrew poets in the period after the expulsion from Spain. … are based on Turkish, Arab, Spanish and Greek songs, or on Hebrew piyyutim he favored. In the printed editions of Najara's songs, and also in the many unpublished manuscripts of his songs, the first line or the keywords of …
Cantar de las Flores
… of the Eastern-Mediterranean Sephardim: in various manuscripts: a Hebrew manuscript from Sarajevo (1794), one from Venice … As is frequent in the Coplas' repertoire, there are some Hebrew words: 'berajot' (benedictions), and in the refrain: …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… found since at least the early eighteenth century (see, manuscript Berlin - Staatsbibliothek [Preussischer … 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 allows for a fundamental revision …

The “Hebrew Melody” by Joseph Achron: New version for voice, violin and piano premiered in Jerusalem, January 8, 2009
… The widely known “Hebrew Melody” by Joseph Achron was composed in 1911 as a … In 1935 Achron returned to this vocal version of the “Hebrew Melody,” adding to it a violin obligato part. This … in Israel. The Music Department holds rare collections of manuscripts and printed materials of Jewish and Israeli …
Mi-al har horev from the manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte
… Recording of "Mi'al har horev" from Obadiah the Proselyte's Hebrew musical manuscripts, arranged by Andre Hajdu and performed by the … a general picture regarding this interesting set of early Hebrew musical manuscripts. In 1918, a fragment containing …
Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue Music in Nineteenth-Century Reform Sources from Hamburg
… monograph … 38994 … 173 … Jerusalem … The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University … Yuval Monograph Series … Ancient … 1996 … Music … Liturgy … History … Modernism … Synagogue … Manuscripts … Reform … Spanish-Portuguese … Germany … …