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A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises … documented in 1724 and 1733) found in South and West Germany, West of the Rhine river (See image no. 1) and in …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the … ethos of the Zionist movement and the Israeli culture that emerged from it. Even when he recorded in … Moroccan was Jewish or Muslim) invited him to perform in Germany. Mwijo adamantly refused to play in Germany because …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long … land [stomp], forced us out of our homes [stomp], but our culture is something they cannot steal. When we stamp our … “The Life-Histories of Megaliths in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany).” World Archaeology 30/1: 23-38. Lino, Lisa. 2009. …
Joseph Achron
… and Moses Michail Milner , he founded the Society for Jewish Folk Music . Achron's association with these … of Russian and European Jewry. Joseph (Yussl) Achron, Jewish violinist and composer, was born May 1/13, 1886 in … house “Jibneh,” taught violin and toured throughout Germany and abroad ( Latvia , Austria , Italy and Egypt ). …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… the music within different historical contexts and local Jewish traditions. “E h ad mi yodea” is a cumulative song. … – God; two – the two tablets of the covenant; three – the Jewish patriarchs; four – the Jewish matriarchs; five – the … differentiate their song from the ones from the surrounding cultures because the number thirteen is considered to be an …
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… began to develop around the tenth century A.D. in south Germany, was the main spoken language and language of oral … and the folksongs, like many other elements of Ashkenazi culture, are made up of a combination of components from … baby, a secular activity, was sometimes accompanied by non-Jewish melodies, sometimes by religious melodies, and …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… Song”. For a start, it represents two of the four genres (Jewish, Irish, Italian, and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take … heart of what became Berlin’s true genius and of what was Jewish – or at least ‘Jew-ish’ – about Berlin’s life and … already too many Jews involved in it. We are told that the Jewish moguls of Hollywood promoted a ‘white-picket-fence’ …
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… the four days of fast, and thrice on Yom Kippur. All of the Jewish communities in Israel, both Sephardic and Ashkenazi, … there are examples of the Priestly Blessing from both Germany and Poland. The difference between the two … Germany, and the Jews' attempts to integrate with European culture during that period, awareness arose pertaining to …