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Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… volunteer in Meseret , a center that supported traditional Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and music. The neighborhood had grown around an absorption … Orthodox Chief Rabbinate. Initially the Rabbinate required rituals of pro forma “conversions” from the immigrants and, …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … cultural context. The synagogue is conceived not only as a ritual space but also as a location for the symbolic public …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of Moroccan Jewish folk singer Alicia (Benassayag) Bendayan on Friday, … songs, and coplas would accompany holidays and life-cycle rituals. Alicia did not perform these songs publicly. …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… 49 … 58 … 710 … Jewish liturgy evolved in a multidirectional process. … return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical performance of the three verses. The precious Leo … the text to music he turned to the language of the spiritual Christian music of his time. Is the practice of …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the … a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … appears to be unique. Its similarity to the American spiritual ‘Glory, Glory Hallelujah’ (and the earlier songs to …
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, … from Spain dated in 1481 ('Poetry as an expression of spiritual reality in the late Sephardic piyyut ,' [In Hebrew], … such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in Berlin, … para-liturgical and non-religious music of the non-European Jewish communities whose members relocated to Israel after … includes synagogue liturgy, life cycle songs, domestic rituals, and readings of sacred texts, providing valuable …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new … in Hebrew) for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, a fast day in Jewish tradition marking the breach of Jerusalem’s … year 1465, includes the “Tikkun Tefillat Atzirah,” a rare ritual based on Mishnah Ta’anit 2:2-5. This order of prayers …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long … external evidence of their allegiance to a cult whose rituals of adulation are manifestly unbelievable” (ibid., …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… the 1910’s. They would gather in synagogues during evening rituals on winter Saturdays to sing from a collection of … in sections according to the different Turkish makam s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem … connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s …