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Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… a number of interrelated musical and textual settings. Looking into the information available in order to reconstruct … “above the palm tree” is a common Iraqi expression evoking a positive state of being, used frequently as an … People of the Inheritance), which he recorded along with David Shiro, another famous cantor of the Syrian community …
Salamone Rossi’s HaShirim Asher LiShlomo in its Fourth Centennial (5383-5783)
… music, you cannot avoid Salamone Rossi and his groundbreaking work, HaShirim Asher LiShlomo whose four-hundredth … Hebraea (1733) [1] … HaShirim in the Catalogue of the David Oppenheim Collection (1826) [2] … HaShirim in … Metz, Isaac, Eleazar S. Embden, J. Goldenthal. Collectio Davidis: I.e. Catalogus Celeberrimae Illius Bibliothecae …
El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… cantors, a disciple of R. Samuel Cohen and son of R. David Ashkenazi, chief Rabbi of Wahran, who officiated … text; to the Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Society for making the digitization of Genizah manuscripts accessible to …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… Jewish majority of Jerusalem, namely the Judeo-Spanish-speaking Sephardim and Eastern European Jews who by 1913 were … Some informants were very prolific such as Ezra ben Hakham David from Baghdad (11 pieces recorded on Monday, July 21 of … the timing of each one within the cylinder. This is a working paper and therefore it will be updated as more …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… ambivalence as a venue for the clarification of the making of this song. Translating the beloved Passover … out live during the Passover Seder in 2004. What is striking in this version, is that the number “two” is “Moses and … version, the one from Baghdad, is performed here by Hazzan David Huri (a most distinguished cantor from Baghdad who …
The Idelsohn Project
… territory. He has long been recognized as a path-breaking scholar of Jewish music and liturgy who influenced … ancestors, have been kindly collaborating with us in making available all the Idelsohniana that remained in South …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… and that only two main channels were available, thus making the voice of Hacohen a recognizable national feature. … appearing in the blog "Oneg Shabbat" developed by Prof. David Assaf of Tel Aviv University. As of September 2022, at … Hacohen’s work lacked a coherent theoretical framework seeking the contextualization of the modern Hebrew song within …
Mizmor le-david (Psalm 29)
… The tunes used by the Western Sephardi Jews are strikingly similar to those used at the synagogues in then major … … אברהם לופז … ניו יורק … ספרדי פורטוגזי … Mizmor le-david (Psalm 29) …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… regarding his remarkable and stormy life are still lacking or not fully addressed and certainly not well … and left Eretz Israel for good on October 5, 1925, embarking with his wife and two younger daughters, Dinah and … bordered by Geula to the north, Mekor Baruch to the west, David Yellin Street to the south, and Mea Shearim to the …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… German text provides insights into Idelsohn’s ancestors lacking from the English and Hebrew autobiographies. As far as … [3d] He sang in a choir tunes that were not to his liking of and finally found Hillel [Schneider in Leipzig] who … Jerusalem 1912. Sitting, from left: Eliezer Meir Lipschütz; David Yellin; Joseph Klausner; Avraham Ben Yehuda. Standing, …