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The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… known as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which originated among the Jewish communities scattered throughout the Ottoman Empire … th centuries and developed under Turkish-Ottoman and Arabic musical influences. Contents The tradition of … accompanies prayer, the Friday night baqqashot song ritual, and all of the Sephardic and Eastern Jewish …
Karev Yom
… The interview was held at the initiative of the Israeli music connoisseur and collector Dudi Patimer. Speaking live … of the earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after … for the Passover Seder, the festive meal accompanied by the ritual reading of the Haggadah. It is the last stanza of the …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali Herz Imber’s poem … culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its … rabbi of the British Mandatory Palestine and spiritual leader of what became the National Religious …
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 … is manifested in the songs' themes, such as the internal spiritual world of the individual and one's relationship with … men's songs (including liturgical and para-liturgical music). The repertoire also deals with themes that reflect …
Marlena Fuerstman
… Marlena Fuerstman served as spiritual leader of Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation and is a member of Jewish Music Research Centre. … Cantor and Researcher … Marlena …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, … and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … inspiring and expressing a state of religious spirituality” (2000, 14). The present analysis seeks to …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… of the opening stanza, is the refrain (the same words and music are repeated) and x, the last line of the rest of the … we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … given places of honor in both the northern and southern rituals [i.e. Ashkenazi and Sephardic rituals]. With the …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … songs for youth, and introspective songs meant for spiritual healing. [1] The Text The text of “Shema' Koleinu” …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … The Passover seder (lit. “order”) is one of the main home rituals. The Haggadah , the order of texts recounting the …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… wars and vicissitudes in Spain that greatly affected the Jewish communities there. In 1140 Ibn Ezra immigrated to … success of household members. Like other Jewish liturgical rituals, the havdalah ceremony is embellished by piyyutim … from B’nai Jeshrun: http://www.bj.org/spiritual-life/music-of-bj/invitation-to-piyyut-na/el-eliyahu/ Literary …