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Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… 49 … 58 … 710 … 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 … these verses scattered within one psalm is their obvious identity. In fact, they comprise a refrain dividing the song …
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, except his name, Binyamin … Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim Beinart on 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 … (Suleiman 2011). Instead of providing new insights into the identity of Ḥazzan Rafoul Tabbach, my conversation with Y …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the … and died on April 30, 2020. He came, as do many Moroccan Jewish performing artists and composers, from a family of … some of the ambivalent aspects of modern Moroccan Jewish identity. Religious zeal intertwines with modern secular …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness through music challenged the normative status of … of any mention of authorship. We know with certainty the identity of the text’s author but the tune is identified as …

The Rules of the Oral Transmission of the Mishnah According to the Aleppo Tradition
… governing the oral transmission of the Mishnah, the Jewish Oral Law. This compilation was originally orally … after being fixed in writing, it was read and studied in Jewish communities without the aid of graphic signs such as … of the Mishnah in the preservation of Jewish cultural identity, and the public character of its study, lead to the …

Inventing Jewish Music
… It was 1848, and the music of central Europe's Jewish communities was in a state of chaos. In the cities, … sense of isolation and abandonment. The very nature of Jewish identity was being questioned from within Jewish society and …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. Friedman’s compositional … themes, educational songs for children, community and identity-building songs for youth, and introspective songs …

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 … A. 2000. The Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship . New York: Oxford …
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 … h enna ceremony as part of the repertoire of Yemenite Jewish women singers. In Yemen, the separation of men and … contradiction reflects an inner conflict in the women's identity, which is connected to their role and place in …