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Haim Louk
… at Em Habanim school in Casablanca, which integrated Jewish religious studies with general education, including … charismatic teacher who greatly influenced Louk's musical path. At the age of 10, Louk met Rabbi David … Yeshiva), where he was introduced to Ashkenazi cantorial traditions and acquired knowledge of Yiddish. After four …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… The Jewish liturgy was never a sealed and unified corpus. Its … logic, that they preserved older layers of Jewish musical memory although he did not discount also the … indeed shows a certain allegiance to the Western Sephardic traditions, especially those from Livorno. However, a closer …
Shabbat and Year Cycle Songs from the Collection of James Levy
… reflects James Levy's profound connection to his father's musical legacy and the enduring cultural traditions of Gibraltar. Rooted in the Sephardic heritage of … Comprising over 350 songs, it represents a distinctive musical heritage, preserving the melodies of past …
5. Mi-Pi El (De Boca del Dio)
… of Simhat Torah. Despite its enormous diffusion throughout Jewish communities and its appearance in countless printed … representative of the Ottoman and North African Sephardic traditions. These are two tunes of very narrow-range that … in and outside Israel. Among the most important historical musical documents we possess of the melody of ‘Mi-pi El’ is …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… experiences, it was widely appreciated for its beauty, musical features, and spiritual power, emerging from … scales, and melodic patterns of nigunim from Galician traditions brought by Uri Sharvit (1995, xii–xxx) with no … as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is …
Yaakov Huri recordings
… Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” a joint … archive , which aimed to systematically document the musical traditions of the Baghdadi Jewish community. The collection …
A Flowering Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not just) for Tu BiShvat
… cycle at the end of winter is a relatively newcomer to the Jewish calendar, going back “only” to Mishnaic times. … Spanish siglo de oro and contemporary Algerian traditions ( Abenójar-Sanjuán 2024 ) and also in the … emerged therefore from a rich multicultural poetic and musical background that can be traced back to the medieval …
Ezra Barnea
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the passing of Ezra … the time. Attentive as he was to the variety of liturgical traditions of the Jerusalemite synagogues that surrounded … an institution dedicated to the preservation of the Jewish musical heritage and its dissemination. He engaged in a …