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Hanukkah Blessings
… Blessings while lighting the candles is a well-established Jewish family practice that is usually performed by the head … patterns. Yet, when the lighting of the candles occurred in community contexts, special musical settings were arranged. … 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 … as an order according to the order and tradition of the community of Niren Burg that they had from times immemorial …
Bin Tavinu Liqnot Bina Ha'azinu
… the rapid spread of his songs all across the Mediterranean Jewish world, the local singers, unable to figure out what … that Najara meant, began using new melodies of their own community's musical tradition for his piyyutim. This led to …
Musical Traditions of the Ethiopian Jews
… of Beta Israel (as the Ethiopian Jews refer to their community) for future generations. Our partner institution … collecting and analyzing the liturgical heritage of this Jewish community would lead to its preservation and to … the period closely following the two large waves of the Jewish Ethiopian immigration to Israel and the complete and …
Ten Zemirot Ami: New Melodies for Piyyutim from the Aleppo Mahzor (1527)
… Ten zemirot ‘ami is the second disc in the new “Contemporary Jewish Music” series of the Jewish Music Research Centre. This new series differs in … light on ancient piyyutim that are still relevant to the community and can be brought back to life on the wings of …
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 … … yemenite singing … Yemenite … Communities … Yemenite community … Israeli Music … Singing … Poetry … Diaspora … …
Ades Synagogue
… The Ades synagogue of the Aleppine Jewish community is located in the Nakhalat Zion neighborhood, in … and inlaid with mother-of-pearl. Since the aforementioned Jewish emigrations from Syria, Jerusalem and New York have …
Admor
… rabbi). It is a synonym to Tsadik, the leader of a Hassidic community, and to the Rebe (in Yiddish), pronounced Rebi by … 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 …
Seliha-Selihot
… 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 its own …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… Borodin and Moussorgsky – was introduced to the Russian Jewish composer and music critic Joel Engel . Stasov … like lightning… this was the memorable night when Jewish art music was born.” From that moment, Engel … reputation preceded him, and he was greeted by the Jewish community as a giant. He died of fever after only two years …