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Karev Yom
… of the earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after … sound and the packaging of Bikel’s album catered to this Jewish market and its imagination of the new Israel. The … by Joshua Kulp from The Schechter Haggadah: Art, History and Commentary (Jerusalem, 2009): Draw near the day …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its practice at ceremonies of Jewish institutions, synagogues, schools and youth … sons of Rishon le-Tziyyon perceived in this song their own history, and sang it with great pride [here the song is …
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 …