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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, … Blessing in the Ashkenazi Tradition While all of the Jewish communities, from Yemen to Lithuania, developed unique melodies for the …
About the Jews of Yemen, A Vanishing Culture
… Spector, addresses the history and rituals of the Jews of Yemen, both in Yemen and in Israel. The music and songs of … songs from the diwan of Shalom Shabazi (the most important Jewish poet of Yemen from the 17 th century), drumming on … … … Tradition … 1986 … Yemen … Yemenite … Ethnomusicology … Jewish cultural groups … Traditions … Israel … Johanna L. …
Seliha-Selihot
… up to Yom Kippur, and these differ among the various Jewish communities. The Ashkenazi communities begin … during this month, most communities during the whole month (Yemenites recite it for half of the month). 'Each Jewish community developed a specific mode of Selihot and …
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 … century truly a multi-ethnic one. Persian, Kurdish, Yemenite and Bucharian Jews joined the ranks of the Aleppo …
With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen
… The Jews of Yemen possess rich musical traditions, 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 …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… Hashanah in the Sephardic liturgy and appears also in the Yemenite rite where it has been found since at least the … 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 …
Im nin'alu
… poem is one of the most popular and widely known among the Yemenite Jews. It is sung on many different occasions, at … of the four performances (2, 4) the traditional Yemenite Jewish lore is predominant; the other two (1, 3) exemplify … melody, which was popularized by Bracha Zefira among the Jewish community of Palestine. It is sung in a responsorial …
Diwan
… of poems by a number of authors. The Diwan of the Jews of Yemen is a paraliturgical collection of poems for home use, … the sixteenth century onward by the addition of poems by Yemenite authors, and at this stage it began to be copied … written by Sephardi authors. When the poems of the great Jewish-Yemenite poet Shalem Shabazi began to appear, these …
Minhah
… at twilight and is one of the three daily services of the Jewish liturgy. It is commonly thought that the term Min h a … Beitekha Sephardic and Italian communities, as well as most Yemenite communities, customarily recite Psalm 84 before … Lakol Shavi'i.” After the Shmona 'Esre Prayer In many Jewish communities, especially those in Israel, it is …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish communities. It consists of gatherings that occur … which up to then had been predominant in the Sephardi Jewish liturgy and piyyut singing in the Middle East, went … (such as the Persian, Bukharian, Iraqi, Kurdish and Yemenite congregations). The final crystallization of the …