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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 … Egypt. H azzanim (cantors) and payytanim passed on these traditions from generation to generation over hundreds of …
And Now We're All Brothers: Singing In Yiddish In Contemporary North America
… song in America, with emphasis on its relation to past traditions and present concerns, most particularly the Holocaust and the construction of Jewish identities through musical performances. … 1 … 33942 …
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
… in southwestern Ukraine). This new production of the Jewish Music Research Centre prepared around the centennial … CD + booklet … Jerusalem, Israel … Bukovina, USSR, Israel … Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem … Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel … 25 … 9415 … 10623 … 2016 … Archival …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, … I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a … correlates nicely with the dynamic story and transgressive traditions of Purim. We will find that the modes for Torah …
Assaf Shelleg
… Schusterman Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology and Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at … previously taught as the visiting Efroymson Scholar in the Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures … constituted composers’ perceptions of Jewish musical traditions as much as they facilitated their dialectical …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… 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 … preceding and during the High Holidays. Ashkenazi musical traditions of Shofet kol ha'aretz Our previous feature on …
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 … Until immigration to Israel, in the non-Ashkenazi Jewish traditions, as in the Ashkenazi ones, the Four Questions (as …
“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 … is possible to distinguish between two branches of melodic traditions associated with this piyyut : the Ottoman/Iraqi …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… of the Land of Israel (1882-1946) . … Not all traditional Jewish holiday songs have survived in their original … Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini, which used to be performed in Jewish communities on Purim, especially in Germany, is one … Early Songs of the Land of Israel (Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel 12). In his liner notes Mazor writes: …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… destructive in scale, the fire came as a great blow to the Jewish community living in Saloniki at the time. The fire … tens of thousands of Jews homeless and consumed most of the Jewish neighborhood in the old city, including areas of … Greeks, and Muslims, each developing their own cultural traditions and speaking in their own languages.” 5 The Jews …