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Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… associated with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch … Yiẓḥak , or ‘Akedah ) has assumed an important function in Jewish religion and culture since Antiquity. This renowned narrative describes how the first Jewish family (Abraham, Sarah and Isaac) came close to …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness through music challenged the normative status of … summer camp, aka Kinder Ring, is indicative of the contexts of performance of “Piramidn.” Although, as Neil Levin …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the … and died on April 30, 2020. He came, as do many Moroccan Jewish performing artists and composers, from a family of … conversation with Mwijo and it appears also in some of his texts. In spite of the importance of Mwijo’s intra-Jewish …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… it always sung with the same stanzas or melody. In some contexts it may be referred to as a piyyut , whereas in other … connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s … Below we will compare a common stanza of these two texts: “Adonay hu elohenu,” SHIBA , Stanza 2 משה עלה לשמים …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common source, … proposed that musical diversity is the natural state of Jewish culture. Lidarti’s setting was a case exemplifying … understand. Listening to high art music with Hebrew sacred texts “elevates” Jewish musical culture, and introduced the …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long … as elsewhere in the Arab world during the Nahda era, Jewish musicians played an active role in the performance … musical forms and/or combined Hebrew sacred and poetic texts with melodies from pre-existing popular songs, a …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… of the piyyut . His insights on a selection of different texts suggested a comprehensive method for addressing the … in Hebrew) for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, a fast day in Jewish tradition marking the breach of Jerusalem’s … this date was associated with other catastrophes in Jewish history. In spite of its prominence in Jewish …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… “From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” is a … für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Germany) and the Jewish Music Research Centre (Hebrew University of … the detailed examination, analysis, and digital care of the texts and the recordings. Additional relevant sources …
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, … Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim Beinart on the … However, his musical renditions of other, much longer texts is spotless. Why does he “reinvent” “Bore ‘ad ana”? Or …
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 … Melngailis collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics makes public a forgotten … introduction provides ample historical and musical contexts. Karnes did not spare any effort in trying to locate …