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Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… into obscurity and are only known to experts in the history of modern Hebrew song. Na’aleh L’artzeinu is only … Folk Songs,” it is important to explore first the history of this publication and its author. Though Binder is … library at the New York campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, was “Six Songs from the Jewish …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, … I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a … The recording is from online resources associated with the “History of the American Cantorate” project (Slobin 1984–86). …
Assaf Shelleg
… Schusterman Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology and Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at … previously taught as the visiting Efroymson Scholar in the Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures … musicology, musicological historiography, cultural history, post-tonal theories, postcolonialism, …
Haggai Ben-Shammai
… in the departments of Arabic Language and Literature, history of the Islamic countries and Semitic languages for … Judaeo-Arabic Bible exegesis and philosophy, history of Jewish communities in Islamic countries, and Islamic … for Judaeo-Arabic Studies (1997-2013); co-director of the Jewish Studies program at St. Petersburg State University …
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 … also attested in several medieval manuscripts of the Roman Jewish rite available at the IMHM catalogue. The persistence … , 1906, vol. 11, p. 306. Edwin Seroussi. “Toward a history of Jewish oral traditions: The singing of the prayer …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. Friedman’s compositional … The Lion King (1994). These films were milestones in the history of popular music in feature animated films. Alan …
Max Lempel
… Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1900 into an assimilated Jewish family. He studied at the Akademie für Musik und … of Music . Sources: Hirshberg, Jehoash. Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880-1948: A Social History . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995, pp. 95-96. Lühe, …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… destructive in scale, the fire came as a great blow to the Jewish community living in Saloniki at the time. The fire … tens of thousands of Jews homeless and consumed most of the Jewish neighborhood in the old city, including areas of … the death camps. Jewish Saloniki: A Brief Survey The Jewish history in Saloniki is essentially comprised of a few …
The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer
… of Operation Moses when a significant proportion of the Jewish population of Ethiopia was flown from the Sudan to … in Jerusalem, Machon Meir, to familiarize them with general Jewish history and Orthodox religious law ( Halacha ) that …
Silvia Glocer
… of the arts, where she also received her doctorate in History and Theory of the Arts. For her doctoral thesis, she did research on Jewish musicians who had been exiled to Argentina during the …