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A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… period, apparently predating its use among Sephardic Jews. Manuscript 85 of the Archivio Storico Comunale of … fragments from an order of Selihot of the Ashkenazi Jews in Italy, dated to the 13 th or 14 th century (IMHM, PH … authority transcended the internal ethnic divisions between Jews from the different lands of Islam. The music itself …
Assaf Shelleg
… a particular interest in art music written by and about Jews. Shelleg is the author of the award-winning book Jewish …

Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… locus ” for discourses that embody “musical corpora of the Jews with what can be called the ‘aura of antiquity’” (47). … was brought about by a common desire, among East-Ashkenazi Jews, to allow for multiple expressive potentialities in the … Expression of Religious Philosophy among the East-Ashkenazi Jews.' Shofar 18, no. 4: 3-24. …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… of the songs in Binder’s book, would sound familiar to most Jews with a religious background but would be meaningful to secular Jews as well. Traditionally, the “Yom Gilah” – the day of … in Israel, this text seems better suited for diasporic Jews than those who were already actually in Palestine. …

On musical connections between Jews and the neighboring peoples of Eastern and Western Europe
… … Robert A. Rothstein … On musical connections between Jews and the neighboring peoples of Eastern and Western …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… because of the extreme transformation that the Yemenite Jews have undergone since their emigration to Israel. One …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a possible source of inspiration: Die Wacht am … is not distinctively Rumanian, circulated in Moldavia among Jews and non-Jews and was adapted to several texts in Rumanian, one of …
Karev Yom
… for Israeli “products” in North American concentrations of Jews and Bikel was the right person, at the right time and … triennial order of reading of the Torah practiced by the Jews of Palestine during the Byzantine period. It …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… Melodies: Volume 9 The Folk Song of the East European Jews . Leipzig: Friedrich Hofmeister. Noy, Dov and Meir Noy. …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… musical tradition of communities that descended from Jews expelled from Spain who lived in various geographic … sung immediately before each day's morning prayers, as the Jews of Iraq were accustomed to do, but today they are … became revered and popular among the Sephardic and Eastern Jews in Jerusalem. According to Caspi, many melodies sung by …