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Yaakov Huri recordings
… Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” a joint venture … includes synagogue liturgy, life cycle songs, domestic rituals, and readings of sacred texts, providing valuable …
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. … great influence on modern Sephardic and Oriental Jewish ritual practices. This influence is clearly reflected in the … emerged therefore from a rich multicultural poetic and musical background that can be traced back to the medieval …
Yaakov Huri
… relations dominating the encounters between European ethnomusicologists and their subjects of inquiry in Israel. Our … as rabbi. Huri belonged to the Zionist sector of the Jewish community. This sector, unlike the yeshivah students … mohel (i.e. certified for carrying out circumcisions) and ritual slaughterer, Huri received an invitation to from the …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… study aims to trace the unique characteristics of a type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European … widely appreciated for its beauty, musical features, and spiritual power, emerging from structural, melodic, and … as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… The Jewish liturgy was never a sealed and unified corpus. Its … unique texts such as the selection of Psalm verses whose music is discussed below. The memory of the melodies and … Tiaret (Tahert) in North-Western Algeria and became the spiritual leader of the Wahrani (Oran) Jewish diaspora in …
2. El Merecimiento de Isaac (Im Afes Rova Haqen)
… Si el servicio de los sacrificios fue abandonado (If the ritual of the sacrifices was cancelled) This copla is a … this calamity, God can trust the faithfulness of the Jewish people as Abraham demonstrated by obeying the order … - Judeo-Espagnol - Judizmo … Ladino … Sephardic … Balkan music … Izmir … Spanish … Turkey … Yamim Nora'im - High …
Cada Año Mijorado: Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Year Cycle
… Songs for the Year Cycle due to appear in our Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel, no. 28. This publication will … include the complete repertoire of Judeo-Spanish songs for rituals of the Jewish year cycle. … Ladino, Ladino - Judeo-Espagnol - …
Sarah Harat
… ( The Yemenites: History, Communal Organization, Spiritual Life , ed. Menahem Ben-Sasson, Jerusalem: Ben Zvi … scholarly education, an unusual feature for young Yemenite Jewish girls at the time. Sarah was exposed to the … henna and wedding events, [ 1 ] and in those occasions her musical skills surfaced already at a young age when she …
‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… the increasing popularity among his compatriots of a new ritual eventually called Qabbalat Shabbat . These rituals … around the mid-sixteenth century from the circles of Jewish mystics of Safed and spready rapidly throughout the … addition to ‘Lekhah Dodi.’ Even more important for the main musical argument of this Song of the Month (see below), the …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared … one who chants when the Torah is read from and a shochet, a ritual slaughterer of animals. He was a very quiet man, very …