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A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… in God's strength, and be ye strong, My people, and His law obey, Then will He pardon sin and wrong, Then mercy … 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 …
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 … Synagogues,” in Sacred Sound and Social Change , eds. Lawrence A. Hoffman and Janet R. Walton (Notre Dame and …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a performing stage, even though major … combines elements of a learning session (casuistry of Oral Law passages and other pedagogical texts) with liturgical …
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 … was punishment for the sins of not keeping the religious laws of Shabbat ( los pekados del shabbat ).” 8 El Incendio …
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 regulates the private sphere among …
Bernardo Feuer
… exclusively synagogue material and included arrangements of Jewish folk songs, choral parts of operas in the original … During this period Feuer also taught music in different Jewish schools in Buenos Aires, where he also conducted the … newspaper in Buenos Aires, and subsequently his mother-in-law suggested writing music for the text. This song version …
Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition
… the nature of man, and therefore given to produce natural laws, or at least some regularities that can be relied upon … … Instruments … Percussion … Definitions … Monophony … Jewish … Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition … Edith (Esther) Gerson Kiwi …
The Rules of the Oral Transmission of the Mishnah According to the Aleppo Tradition
… outline the results of research designed to understand the laws 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 …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… names, usually “Las tablas de la Ley” (The tablets of the Law) or, after its opening words, “Nuestro Señor Eloheinu” … connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s … Without food or water He brought back the Tablets of the Law And on them is written Anoji [ SHIBA ] / That begin with …
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 … as elsewhere in the Arab world during the Nahda era, Jewish musicians played an active role in the performance … the original recording; it could have been the result of a flaw in either the record or the device on which it was …