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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 … films. Jerusalem Jews embedded in the modern Egyptian Arab culture in Mandatory Palestine were just another avid client …
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 culture is still alive today, half a century after the …
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 … research and understand. In every living, breathing culture, every generation feels obligated to add something …
Ahavat ‘Olamim
… in 2010. This is the third disc in the Contemporary Jewish Music series produced by the Jewish Music Research Centre. It is the product of the … to R. Haim Louk’s contribution to contemporary Israeli culture. Performers: Rabbi Haim Louk , the New Jerusalem …
Hayrana Laih
… is popular in the Arab world, but also has connections to Jewish musical contexts and musicians. The lyrics of Hayrana … [7] Joel Beinin, “Layla Murad: Popular Culture and the Politics of Ethnoreligious Identity,” in The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora. …
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 … against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old traditional Ottoman Jewish community ruled by rabbinical authority was shattered … modernizing trends characterized by an exposure to Western culture (most particularly French), to liberal trends in Judaism (especially to Jewish nationalism or Zionism) and to subversive political …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises … language like pentatonics, but uses a strongly profiled Jewish prayer mode whose foremost characteristic is a stock … Hanoch Avenary, “The Aspects of Time and Environment in Jewish Traditional Music,” Israel Studies in Musicology, IV …
Diwan
… In Arab culture, a Diwan is an anthology of poems by one or several … written by Sephardi authors. When the poems of the great Jewish-Yemenite poet Shalem Shabazi began to appear, these …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish communities. It consists of gatherings that occur … his piyyutim to be sung are borrowed from the musical culture of the Sephardi Jews of Spain (tunes of … which up to then had been predominant in the Sephardi Jewish liturgy and piyyut singing in the Middle East, went …