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“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 … poetry, research on Hebrew grammar, writings concerning Jewish thought (including philosophy and various scientific … fourth blessing in the Amidah prayer of the Arvit (evening) service following the Sabbath) . The nusah (prayer style) …
Max Lempel
… Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1900 into an assimilated Jewish family. He studied at the Akademie für Musik und … time. He was also active in the Palestine Broadcasting Service (later on Kol Israel Radio) where he arranged music … of Music . Sources: Hirshberg, Jehoash. Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880-1948: A Social History . …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a performing stage, even though major … for the Religious School, Congregational Seder, and Home Services (New York: Bloch Pub. Co, 1925). In Europe during …
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 … shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. Friedman’s compositional … fast” prayer) and in the evening and morning services of Yom Kippur. The full text reads: אָב הָרַחֲמָן, …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… of all the Universe’) is a centerpiece of the morning service for Rosh Hashanah in the Sephardic liturgy and … we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … also attested in several medieval manuscripts of the Roman Jewish rite available at the IMHM catalogue. The persistence …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its practice at ceremonies of Jewish institutions, synagogues, schools and youth … by the Hebrew section of the Palestine Broadcasting Service during the British Mandate of Palestine. The issue …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… known as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which originated among the Jewish communities scattered throughout the Ottoman Empire … singing tradition found among the descendants of the Jewish communities exiled from Spain to the lands of Islam … prayer sections, as opposed to other sections in the prayer service with a defined melody usually sung by the …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… 82-83. Example 8 Harry Coopersmith, editor, Little Books of Jewish Songs: Purim , Chicago: Board of Jewish Education, 1928. Example 9 Jacob Schoenberg, Shirei … le-shabea h ” prayer at the end of the Sabbath morning services in Ashkenazi synagogues, mainly outside of Israel, …
Marsh (LKT)
… Ukraine, 1820s-30s]. Fridkin 1925, p. 46 . “A Jewish wedding in the shtetl was a holiday... When Arish the … tunes which were usually adopted from the surrounding non-Jewish cultures. The adoption of marches by Hasidim is part … marching but for singing. Marches are introduced during the services to poetic texts, such as Lekhah dodi and El adon …
Volekh (LKT)
… but structured melody for listening, from the Romanian-Jewish repertoire. Often performed for guests at the banquet … ‘a Wallachian one,’ i.e., a dance or tune in Romanian-Jewish style.” Alpert 1996b, p. 59 . “Wulach, Woloch’l. A … Walachian tune found its way into almost every religious service of the yearly cycle. Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov …