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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 …
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 …
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 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 …