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Marsh (LKT)
… Ukraine, 1820s-30s]. Fridkin 1925, p. 46 . “A Jewish wedding in the shtetl was a holiday... When Arish the … tunes which were usually adopted from the surrounding non-Jewish cultures. The adoption of marches by Hasidim is part … Members of the Boyan community and young Hasidim of other communities use this term broadly to refer to joyful …
Sher
… “Sher: One of the most common dance forms in the Jewish repertoire, similar to a square dance or a Russian … their weddings and celebrations, to which they invited Jewish musicians. The Ukrainian youth there danced the šer … much earlier than the nineteenth century, in many Jewish communities and especially in Jewish Ashkenazi communities, …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… the music within different historical contexts and local Jewish traditions. “E h ad mi yodea” is a cumulative song. … – God; two – the two tablets of the covenant; three – the Jewish patriarchs; four – the Jewish matriarchs; five – the … the idea of a number riddle of this sort appears in many communities and it is usually difficult, if not impossible, …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… known as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which originated among the Jewish communities scattered throughout the Ottoman Empire during … singing tradition found among the descendants of the Jewish communities exiled from Spain to the lands of Islam …
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 … I knew, the same one that is sung today in all the Jewish communities. At the beginning, neither the song nor the …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… of 'play song” or singing game commonly performed among the Jewish communities of central and southern Yemen. It is sung at the … h enna ceremony as part of the repertoire of Yemenite Jewish women singers. In Yemen, the separation of men and …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… song, reflecting once again the intricate ways in which Jewish repertoires were constructed by diverse agents in the … The recordings’ section of the Jacob Michael Collection of Jewish Music at the National Sound Archives of the Israel … in Hebrew and Yiddish, a common practice in American Jewish communities at the time. All in all, this Purim suite is a …
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 … are authoritative for other reasons, within individual communities and denominations. [26] …
Haggai Ben-Shammai
… Judaeo-Arabic Bible exegesis and philosophy, history of Jewish communities in Islamic countries, and Islamic theology. He … 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 … and an “alternative” tune (seven variants) preferred by the communities of the “Polish rite” (East of the Elbe and …