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Eikha yashvah vadad
… the opening letter of each verse following the order of the Hebrew alphabet. Each verse consists of three lines. In the … follows the text of verses 1-3 of Lamentations and their translation (credits: www.mechon-mamre.org ; …
My Path to Jewish Music
… Meir Stern for his generous assistance in preparing this translation from German into English. Stutschewsky’s … German were completed and appear in square brackets. Hebrew readers can find translations of these essays, … with a refined lyrical sensibility, set to Yiddish and Hebrew texts by Peretz, Bialik, Tschernichowsky, and others. …
Edith Gerson-Kiwi in Tehran (1961): Documents from a Revealing Journey
… archive and published here for the first time in an edited translation—one can trace the development of Gerson-Kiwi’s … one of Israel’s most distinguished Iranologists at the Hebrew University, as well as the founder of … Ghetto” ( names vary between the Diary records and the Hebrew catalogue ). Figure 1: List of recordings from the …
A Fine Reciprocity
… constantly changing object” comprising the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, all of which point to, embody, and bring … of Yehuda Halevi (1075–1141), among the most celebrated Hebrew poets of his era. The poem given the English title … contains the following lines, given in Cole’s exquisite translation. I sought your nearness. With all my …
Antiguo Cancionero Sefardí: Old Judeo-Spanish Songs Recovered
… (Ladino) musical incipits appearing at the head of Hebrew paraliturgical poems ( piyyutim ) in manuscripts and … century. These incipits, which guided the performer of the Hebrew song to the melody to be applied in performance, are … genres—romances, lyrical songs, coplas , piyyutim , and translations of piyyutim into Judeo-Spanish—originating from …
Ezra Aharon (“Azuri”): Raphael Yair Elnadav, Itzhak Eliyah Navon and Ezra Aharon
… Karel Salmon) —then director of music programming for the Hebrew section of the Palestinian Broadcasting Service … firm control over the limited airtime allotted to Oriental Hebrew music on PBS. Out of deference to Aharon, Elnadav … countries active in British Mandate Palestine. English Translation: Jerusalem 27 Elul 5701 (19.9.41) To my dear …
Ezra Aharon (“Azuri”): Ten Years at the Palestine Broadcasting Service (PBS)
… that had already appeared in his writings on Azuri in the Hebrew press of the late 1930s and in public lectures, such as the renewal of Hebrew song based on liturgical sources, the purported … director of the Arabic section, ʿAjāj Nuwayḥiḍ. English Translation Ezra Aharon: On the Occasion of his Ten Years of …
Translating Tropes (and Psalmodies): New Sources on Steve Reich’s Ethnographic Imports
… Steve Reich ’s encounter with Judaism saw continuous acts of translation. A process by which one thing turns into another … Reich’s translations of biblical cantillation tropes and Hebrew psalmody into (his) minimalist modules has been a … that day Reich inscribed the Gregorian date alongside the Hebrew one (Nisan 8, 5737) in addition to the Hebrew acronym …
22. "Loy Sevoyshi, Di Eydo Ha-Kdoysho"
… The Yiddish text is interpolated between the words of the Hebrew poem (enclosed in the following translation in quotation marks). It was written by Yehezkel …
Lekha Eli Teshuqati: Experiencing total self-surrender to God in song
… become a staple of the trend of performing religious Hebrew poetry as Israeli popular music. This piyyut is among … structure, continues to inspire contemporary audiences. Translation of the first four lines: To You, my God, is my … Unlike the vast majority of liturgical poetry created by Hebrew poets in medieval Al-Andalus, Lekha Eli Teshuqati …
The Modernity of Piyyut Creativity: Ozreni El Hay Lehakhni'a
… in the creation, transmission and performance of sacred Hebrew poetry in the modern period. This song is universally … one of the most prolific authors and disseminators of Hebrew sacred poetry in the Levant of the late nineteenth … a collection of piyyutim with Persian sharh (explanatory translation) published on behalf of the large …
Qamti be-ashmoret (Kamti)
… each. Haim performs the opening stanza of the original Hebrew poem and then a Judeo- Spanish translation of the first and second stanzas. Eastern …


