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Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… library at the New York campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, was “Six Songs from the Jewish Homeland, Arranged for Mixed Voices.” [2] This … somewhat negligible. In 1926 Bloch Publishing Company (“The Jewish Book Concern”), one of the largest and most …
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 … of its festive character, is used to express ideas and texts related to glory, kingdom, and lordship. However,the …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… There are scholars of Jewish and Israeli culture whose crucial contributions … the oral testimonies of veterans of the Yishuv (the Jewish community of Palestine prior to the establishment of …
Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… to serve as hazzan (cantor) of the flourishing Portuguese Jewish community. In this city, he taught the Oriental … Turkey and Greece. Through this collection, the Western Jewish communities became familiar with the songs of Rabbi … version, performed by the most distinguished Bukharian Jewish cantor Ezra Malakov from Queens (New York), is one of …
Aims and Scope
… Dedicated to the study of Jewish musical traditions and their habitats, Yuval …
Steiger
… A term in use in the European Jewish musical tradition to refer to the different modal …
The Tedeschian Community
[1]The Tedeschian Jews are Ashkenazi Jews who originated in Germany, and immigrated to…
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… to the text and the music within different historical contexts and local Jewish traditions. “E h ad mi yodea” is a cumulative song. … – God; two – the two tablets of the covenant; three – the Jewish patriarchs; four – the Jewish matriarchs; five – the …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… 2. La galana , Elie Cohen Here is a comparison of the texts in both recordings: Compagnie Espagnole de Salonique … for Performing Arts) conducted by Roumen Tsonev in the CD Jewish Songs from Bulgaria . The song itself starts at … York: Sepher-Hermon Press, 1987. Bunis, David. Voices from Jewish Salonika: Selections from the Judezmo Satirical …