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Hanukkah Blessings
… Singing the Hanukkah Blessings while lighting the candles is a well-established Jewish family practice that is usually performed by the head … the first two bars of the Maoz Tzur melody. Scholars of Jewish music from each generation, such as Eduard Birnbaum, …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… of digital resources have enhanced the study of the Jewish liturgy helping us to make more accurate assessments … we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … was already in place and could be transferred to the singing of other texts. The thirteen to fourteen century …
Hayrana Laih
… is popular in the Arab world, but also has connections to Jewish musical contexts and musicians. The lyrics of Hayrana … great Umm Kalthoum for the primacy of the female Egyptian singing stage. Layla Mourad, was born in Cairo as Lilyan … she retired from acting and several years later also from singing. [7] Until her death in 1995, Mourad made rare …
With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen
… which have always been of interest to scholars of Jewish music, just as their unique cultural history has attracted the attention of Jewish scholars from an early stage. Interest in this … … 2006 … Yemen … Diwan … Israel … immgiration … yemenite singing … Yemenite … Communities … Yemenite community … …
Ades Synagogue
… The Ades synagogue of the Aleppine Jewish community is located in the Nakhalat Zion … and inlaid with mother-of-pearl. Since the aforementioned Jewish emigrations from Syria, Jerusalem and New York have … its inception, the synagogue has maintained the Bakkashot singing tradition , which is performed very early in the …
Hay ram galeh
… of Jerusalem. The Ades synagogue was founded in 1901 by the Jewish immigrants from Aleppo (northern Syria) and since its … liturgical style. This style merges diverse Jewish practices from the Middle East, such as the urban … poet but rather a performer thoroughly involved in the singing of piyyutim . This experience resulted in his comand …
Admor
… and his authority is expressed in matters connected to Jewish law (Hallakha). He conducts marriages, signs on divorces, and is the address for questions concerning Jewish practices, Kosher problems, and questions pertaining … suffice themselves with partial or full direction of the singing at the Tish (See: Tish , and Mazor 1989). Lately, …
Tish
… invention. Since the Mishna era, rabbis and other leading Jewish figures used to give a Torah sermon during the feast, … and holiness that was absent from the feasts of Jewish sages in previous generations. This dimension stems … . These virtues are sometimes attached to the Tsadik's singing and dancing at the Tish and even to rhythmic …
Seliha-Selihot
… the participants ask for forgiveness for their sins, by singing and reciting piyutim (mainly Seliha piyutim) and … up to Yom Kippur, and these differ among the various Jewish communities. The Ashkenazi communities begin … month (Yemenites recite it for half of the month). 'Each Jewish community developed a specific mode of Selihot and …
Hora
… and the second with duple. Hora as a Klezmer Genre The Jewish Klezmers adopted both kinds of genres and terms. The … folk dance. The Zionists, who had the custom of communal singing of both H assidic and Klezmer tunes, danced the Hora …