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The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… known as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which originated among the Jewish communities scattered throughout the Ottoman Empire … singing tradition found among the descendants of the Jewish communities exiled from Spain to the lands of Islam … to the use of maqam . The use of maqam for liturgical poetry and song was based throughout the 17 th century on …
Karev Yom
… of the earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after … sound and the packaging of Bikel’s album catered to this Jewish market and its imagination of the new Israel. The … yom,’ analyzed below in detail). From the point of view of poetry, the reliance on verses from the Biblical ‘Song of …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its practice at ceremonies of Jewish institutions, synagogues, schools and youth … this poem have polyphonic resonances in Romantic European poetry. Different scholars cited two nineteenth-century …
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 … (see 1974, etc.) in an article which deals with the love poetry repertoire found among the women of Sana'a. In these …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… song, reflecting once again the intricate ways in which Jewish repertoires were constructed by diverse agents in the … The recordings’ section of the Jacob Michael Collection of Jewish Music at the National Sound Archives of the Israel … the popular Hassidic niggun used as a setting for Kipnis' poetry. In addition to those suggested at the time by Yaakov …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… draws from poetic formulae common in early Zionist Hebrew poetry. In Zionist songbooks and collections from the first … library at the New York campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, was “Six Songs from the Jewish Homeland, Arranged for Mixed Voices.” [2] This …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… the last great poets of the Spanish 'Golden Age' of Hebrew poetry. Ibn Ezra was born in Tudela, Spain in 1089 and died … wars and vicissitudes in Spain that greatly affected the Jewish communities there. In 1140 Ibn Ezra immigrated to … poetry, research on Hebrew grammar, writings concerning Jewish thought (including philosophy and various scientific …
Arba Otiyot
… This CD is dedicated to piyutim (sung sacred poetry) of the Jews of the Tafilalt (Berb. Tāfīlālt) region, … piyutim by other authors, which are related to the Moroccan Jewish tradition. The concept and performance of this … mehullal ba-tishbahot … 1 … 7 … 64 … Jerusalem, Israel … Jewish Music Research Centre/The Ben-Zvi Institute/NaNa Disk …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… Kikhlot Yeini - Berry Sacharov - 2012 … Not all traditional Jewish holiday songs have survived in their original … Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini, which used to be performed in Jewish communities on Purim, especially in Germany, is one … the borderline between medieval secular and sacred poetry characteristic of the Andalusian Sephardic milieu. …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of … single-handedly maintained and kept alive the Moroccan Jewish singing tradition in Israel against all odds. He was … Jewry’s foremost paytan , an expert in the religious poetry sung as part of the liturgy, in paraliturgical events …