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The Rules of the Oral Transmission of the Mishnah According to the Aleppo Tradition
… governing the oral transmission of the Mishnah, the Jewish Oral Law. This compilation was originally orally … after being fixed in writing, it was read and studied in Jewish communities without the aid of graphic signs such as … The vital importance of the Mishnah in the preservation of Jewish cultural identity, and the public character of its …

Inventing Jewish Music
… It was 1848, and the music of central Europe's Jewish communities was in a state of chaos. In the cities, … sense of isolation and abandonment. The very nature of Jewish identity was being questioned from within Jewish society and challenged from without. Traditional …

Sur le concept de musique juive
… sur ses productions. … 9431 … Twenty-first century … Jewish music … Jewish music research … Musicology … Sur le concept de …

Orality as Religious Ideal: The Music of East-European Jewish Prayer
… idea. … 9479 … Orality … Eastern Europe … Prayer … Jewish Prayer … Jewish … Jewish music … Religious music … Orality as Religious Ideal: …

Music in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah in Northern Africa
… More than any other Jewish group, the Northern African community has adopted the … differs from those prevalent in other parts of the Jewish world; its most characteristic feature is the …

Salamone Rossi as a Composer of "Hebrew" Music
… practically only collection of religious works by a Jewish composer of art music. They were written for various … Rossi … Rossi, Salamone, 1570?-ca. 1630 … Composer … Jewish composers … Art Music … Seventeenth (17th) Century … …

Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardi Melodies of Qinot for the Ninth of Av
… of qinot melodies for the Ninth of Av (the date on the Jewish calendar that commemorates the destruction of the … order of the four fasts.” … 9415 … Sephardi … Sephardic Jewish people … Western Sephardi tradition … Sephardi …

The Priestly Blessing in the Ashkenazi Synagogue: Ritual and Chant
… come from under the prayer shawls of the kohanim . All Jewish communities from Yemen to Lithuania cherish special …

The Training of Hazzanim in Nineteenth-Century Germany
… … 9613 … 19th (Nineteenth) Century … 19th century jewish history … Jewish Culture Germany … Hazzanut … Hazzanim - Cantors … …

Le monument juif d'epoque romane de Rouen: Ce que nous enseignent les graffiti
… a donné lieu à d'intenses controverses. … 23457 … Jewish History … Jewish community … Archeology … Excavation … Monuments … Le …