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Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… the areas that comprise today Lithuania, Belarus, Western Russia, Ukraine and Poland and is now widely practiced in … 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 …
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 … Mahzor at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy in St. Petersburg D 101 (F 69720) includes …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… in the seder . Until the mid-20 th century, most Ashkenazi Jews intoned this text with a pentatonic learning tune … M. Lessmann, 1933) published an old niggun from West Prussia transmitted to him by K. Lowenstein. Although this … into the Ashkenazi dominated milieu, Sephardic and Oriental Jews learned many metric Haggadah tunes taught in …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… the printed edition was hard to acquire, or Ms. Moscow, Russian State Library, Ms. Guenzburg 280/5, Italy, 18 th … below, attesting that it was known among the Baghdadi Jews until the last generation of immigrants to Israel in …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… as “folk melody.” Indeed, the tune recalls those of Russian folksongs. However, it has not been located, thus … persistence of the song in the memory of Eastern European Jews but also of the resilience of Yiddish culture during … of pyramids, There was a king, wicked and evil; There all Jews were His servants, his slaves. Precious children …
Moshe Attias
… he had towards the way the State of Israel treated Moroccan Jews (see more below), he remained a local patriot. A … as grievances against the state’s approach to all Moroccan Jews since their massive immigration. Deri is portrayed, as … center of a public controversy was “Arusiyyat,” meaning “Russian women.” A report in the NRG website from January 1, …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… from minority communities which inhabited Latvia, namely, Jews, Roma, Russians, Germans, Lithuanians, Poles, Belarussians, … ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of the cultural life of Jews in Latvia, with emphasis on their musical ecosystem. …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… explained by the excitement generated by the opening of the Russian and Ukrainian archives of Judaica to Israelis in the … the then revolutionary Aleph cataloging system and in the Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew languages, engaged in this … without Words , 1946]: Nign No. 3 … Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913): Annotations …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… accompanied by Beregovski’s own comments to the nign in Russian was published as a digital file in M. Beregovski, … the vast Jewish settlement in Ukraine, Poland and Russia. Thus, recent ethnographic work among Hassidim … of a Hassidic nign performed by non-Hassidic Orthodox Jews in Israel. National Library of Israel, Sound Archive, …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… in the contemporary practice of the descendants of Aleppo Jews in Jerusalem (see example 2). Example 1: "Maq’helot … fragments. Lurie’s recordings reflect musical practices of Jews from the Ottoman provinces of Greater Syria (Aleppo and … J. Zipperstein, and S An-Ski. The Worlds of S. An-Sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century. …