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Eliyahu Hacohen
… There are scholars of Jewish and Israeli culture whose crucial contributions remain sealed to … of the modern Hebrew song (aka Zemer ‘ivri or Shirei Eretz Israel ) in its formative period (c. 1880-1940), Hacohen … of the veterans of the Hebrew song programming at the Kol Israel (“Voice of Israel”) radio station who invited Hacohen …
Isaac Levy
… of Music and Dance) and in Tel Aviv at the Samuel Rubin Israel Academy of Music (now the Buchmann-Mehta School of … he was appointed head of the Ladino department at the Israeli public radio, Kol Yisrael ("Voice of Israel"). In 1954, Levy founded a series …
Moshe Havusha
… 1961 into a family of Iraqi immigrants in Jerusalem’s Beit Israel neighborhood. He absorbed the ancient Iraqi … musical styles. Today, Havusha, who still lives in the Beit Israel neighborhood, is a popular hazzan , payytan , …
Shelomo Morag
… Shlomo Morag was an Israeli professor at the department of Hebrew Language at … was a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and a fellow of …
Kamti lehallel leshem hael hanikhbad
… composed many well-known piyyutim, such as Yom zeh le-Yisrael (usually attributed to Rabbi Isaac Luria Ashkenazi … e.g. in the Tefillat kol peh , Gebeden der Portugees-israelitieten (Amsterdam, 1950, p. 3). The poem opens with a …
Im tashiv (Qiddush shel Shabbat)
… a different, declarative style on the verses veshamru bnei Yisrael et ha- shabbat ("The children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath", Exodus 31:16-17). The …
Yevarekhekha
… the morning liturgy on holidays and, in the Land of Israel, on Sabbaths, too (some Sephardi communities outside Israel also follow this custom). Each word of this ancient …
Va-ya'al Moshe me- 'arbot Mo'ab (Deuteronomy 34)
… The verses that describe the death of Moses before the Israelites enter the Promised Land provide emotional …
Lekh le-shalom geshem
… and London bears a similarity with the opening of the Israeli national anthem, Hatiqvah , a curious fact that has …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Archive at the Music Department of the National Library of Israel (catalogued as Mus. 4). Among the many treasures in … mined the rich Idelsohn archive at the National Library of Israel, covered certain aspects of Idelsohn’s Jerusalem … located in the Idelsohn Archive at the National Library of Israel and catalogued as Mus. 4, G8. It is a memoire by …