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Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… 1702 by Moshe Bekhar Hacohen, the hazzan of the Levantine community of Venice in the 18th century, originating from … connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s study of our song …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common source, … proposed that musical diversity is the natural state of Jewish culture. Lidarti’s setting was a case exemplifying … (such as Lidarti) composed on behalf of the Portuguese community in the late Baroque style. It attests to the …
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 … liturgical hymns who had emigrated from Iraq to the Jewish community of Palestine in 1935. [14] Hakham Raphael Taboush …
Stefanie Mockert
… Berlin, is a researcher at the Hebrew University's Jewish Music Research Centré. Her studies focus on the … the joined research projects with the European Center for Jewish Music, Hanover: “ From Berlin to Jerusalem and back - … which framework she contributed a study on the early modern community in Munich “Musical Transformation of Southern …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… in Hebrew) for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, a fast day in Jewish tradition marking the breach of Jerusalem’s … this date was associated with other catastrophes in Jewish history. In spite of its prominence in Jewish … of the National Library of Israel (= Ms. 24 of the Jewish Community of Vienna Library), dated before the year 1465, …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… for the Ninth of Av among the Sephardic and Oriental Jewish communities. The identity of the author is unknown, … Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim Beinart on the … occasion; source, Hit h adshut: Journal of the Kurdish Community in Israel 2 [1975]). He became well versed in the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the … Melngailis collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics makes public a forgotten … with ideas propagated by musicians in the Jewish community of Palestine. Critic Menashe Ravina (1942, 13), …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… 49 … 58 … Jewish liturgy evolved in a multidirectional process. … verses from diverse psalms are a widespread phenomenon in Jewish liturgy, the text under discussion is unique in that … in each repetition of this pledge of the praying voice (the community of Israel). He accomplished that by making each …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Forgotten Conductor: Heinz Unger and His Search for Jewish Meaning, 1895−1965 . Toronto: University of Toronto … Forgotten Conductor: Heinz Unger and His Search for Jewish Meaning , 1895−1965 seems to question this … position and was therefore impelled to conduct small community orchestras and later on a provisional orchestra …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… serve as hazzan (cantor) of the new, flourishing Portuguese Jewish community. In 1628, he published in his adopted city a … early dissemination in Western Sephardic and North African Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew …