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Inventing Jewish Music
… 23449 … Jewish music … Jewish … Jewish traditions … Jewish community … Traditional music … Tradition … Musical traditions … Jewish musical traditions … Inventing Jewish …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… 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 … and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records of …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked … an eminent scholar of music in the Islamic world and of the Jewish musical traditions within it. Warkov wanted to study processes of …
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 traditions of old. Browsing through my private collection of …
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 … on my phone to a variety of people familiar with musical traditions from the Nahda period and/or the liturgical …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… 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 … and limitations of written sources by looking into the oral traditions captured in field recordings and stored at the …
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 … and other social dislocations on Jewish liturgical traditions. Before addressing the questions raised by the …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… 49 … 58 … Jewish liturgy evolved in a multidirectional process. … crystallized into several minhagim (“customs” or “traditions”) once the printing press started to produce … verses from diverse psalms are a widespread phenomenon in Jewish liturgy, the text under discussion is unique in that …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… discography. It also barely survived in the Sephardic oral traditions which were recorded in ethnographic pursuits … 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 …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked … an eminent scholar of music in the Islamic world and of the Jewish musical traditions within it. Warkov wanted to study processes of …