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‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… around the mid-sixteenth century from the circles of Jewish mystics of Safed and spready rapidly throughout the Jewish world, especially to Italy. One key figure in these … is performed either at the beginning or the end of morning services, depending on local tradition. How can one explain …
Enrico Fink
… and coordinators of the Online Thesaurus of Italian Jewish Music, international project devoted to the study of Italian Jewish musical repertoires. As a musician, he has devoted … but also giving classes, workshops, participating in service leading. In recent years one of his main activities …
1. El Atán, el Atado y el Ara (Et Sha'arei Ratzon)
… ( piyyut ) of the ‘ akedah type included in the morning service of Rosh Hashanah, preceding the blowing of the … The texts recorded come from free translations of the Jewish liturgy into Judeo-Spanish (that is, not from …
3. The Little Sister (Aḥot Qetanah)
… La nación judía recita oraciones (The Jewish nation recites prayers) This piyut belongs to the … precedes the qadish opening of the eve of Rosh Hashanah service in Sephardic and Eastern synagogues. It was composed …
Léibele Schwartz
… , and on the bilingual radio program La Hora Israelita (The Jewish Hour) in the Radio Porteña station. In 1947, at the … Zedek , the third oldest synagogue in New York City and the Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills , one of the oldest … (additional noon prayer) and ‘Sim shalom’ (for the morning service), the later one with the celebrated cantor and …
Jacob Ben-Ami
… and Hirshbein's Faraway Corner . From 1919 to 1920, the Jewish Art Theatre was founded under Ben-Ami's leadership … 9, 1943, Ben-Ami starred in We Will Never Die , a memorial service at Madison Square Garden for the Jews murdered by … Anna. "J acob Ben‐Ami, Actor, Dies at 86; A Founder of Jewish Art Theater ." The New York Times , July 23, 1977. …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… very short-lived journal initiated by the World Center for Jewish Music in Palestine. Milhaud, who was a close … religion and there were cases of Gauls becoming Jewish converts. These Jews remained in Provence and … Cremieux. Aix was the last citadel of the Comtadin liturgy. Service is no longer held in the synagogues of Carpentras …
Haim Louk
… at Em Habanim school in Casablanca, which integrated Jewish religious studies with general education, including … The curriculum encompassed Talmudic studies, piyyutim (Jewish liturgical poetry), traditional chanting of Psalms, … Tangier, receiving his first remuneration for his cantorial services. After a year, he was appointed by Rabbi Aharon …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… The Jewish liturgy was never a sealed and unified corpus. Its … repetition of the ‘Amidah, the core set of prayers of every service. The need to provide the prayer leader with a … tunes differ to a great extent from those of all other Jewish communities. They contain elements of original Jewish …
Aḥüt ghätano (Aḥot qetannah)
… Abraham Hazzan Gerondi (mid-13th century) opens the evening services of Rosh Hashanah (the New Year). Its presence in the Mountain Jewish repertoire is a testimony to the strong Sepharadi …