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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 … from before World War II. Rich ethnographic work on current practices in the United States can be found in Summit 2000 …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention of the printing … also attested in several medieval manuscripts of the Roman Jewish rite available at the IMHM catalogue. The persistence …
The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer
… of Operation Moses when a significant proportion of the Jewish population of Ethiopia was flown from the Sudan to … in Jerusalem, Machon Meir, to familiarize them with general Jewish history and Orthodox religious law ( Halacha ) that … lead to the rapid erosion of the autochthonous liturgical practices of the Beta Israel. Under the initiative of Prof. …
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 … not only singing traditions but very specific liturgical practices from different Jewish communities in Morocco, in …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Yiẓḥak , or ‘Akedah ) has assumed an important function in Jewish religion and culture since Antiquity. This renowned narrative describes how the first Jewish family (Abraham, Sarah and Isaac) came close to … between communities. We know that medieval Ashkenazi prayer practices were of a strong oral character: the individual …
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 … identity. Religious zeal intertwines with modern secular practices, while rooted musical and textual genres interlace …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… the piece was not necessarily connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s …
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 … traditions from the Nahda period and/or the liturgical practices of Middle Eastern Jews. While everyone from the …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… “From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” is a … für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Germany) and the Jewish Music Research Centre (Hebrew University of … and colleges, developing a focus on the Jewish musical practices in the Middle East. Significantly, she was also …
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 … fascinating detailed account by Hocha of all musical practices related to the fast days in the Jewish liturgical …