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Rabbi Hanna Tiferet Siegel
… Rabbi Hanna Tiferet Siegel is a spiritual guide, a Rabbi of the renewal Judaism, and the first … Senior Educator from 1996 to 1997 and earned a Masters of Jewish Studies Degree at Boston Hebrew College in 2003. Her music style was inspired by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach who …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… , Idelsohn projected into this text his own vision of Jewish history and destiny as well as his take on prophecy … This real grace came too late because Goldfaden died a spiritual death already twenty years ago, on the day his … his own Gesamtkunstwerk, ‘Yiftah’, as ‘hizzayon negini’ (musical play). Modern Hebrew writers embraced the biblical …
A Liturgy within the Liturgy: The German Torah Service in Past and Present
… für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hannover (HMTMH) And the Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of … Changing patterns of socialization within synagogue rituals, the aesthetization of the reading of scripture and …
24. El buceador (CES)
… performed by his wife Alegra Attias-Alhanati) and the musical transcription in his Cancionero ( Attias 1972 , pp. … song was associated with the wedding events at the mikveh (ritual bath), an interpretation that makes sense given the …
Maoz Tzur
… followed by the hymn commemorating the reestablishment of Jewish worship in the Jerusalem Temple by the Maccabeans. … The 'Ma'oz tzur' melody from the Verona Ashkenazi ritual is a variant of the tune transcribed by Benedetto … among Italian communities in Piedmont. … Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961) …
Lied ohne Worte (chassidisch)
… Hassidim and among the people’s masses) sprouts the main Jewish characteristic, that of total dedication to the … Jews thrived and turned the Song without Words into pure music (is that a coincidence that a converted, assimilated … In Hasidic thought, expressing the yearning for a total spiritual experience is beyond words, even those of prayer. …
Lekha dodi
… Kabbalat shabbat ("Welcoming of the Sabbath"), a ritual developed by the kabbalists of Safed in the sixteenth century, is one of the most musically rich synagogue services. Its highlight is the … 1505-1584) that is sung to many different melodies in each Jewish community. The Western Sephardi tradition, however, …
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 …
‘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 …
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 …