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Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its … informs us about the modern crisis of the diasporic Jewish community and its splintering into discrete and often … The entry on Naftali Herz Imber in the Jewish Encylopedia (London, 1901-1906) is a further testimony of how fast the …
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 … as an order according to the order and tradition of the community of Niren Burg that they had from times immemorial … Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese Liturgy ] No. 27, London, 1857) and of Leghorn [Livorno] ([Federico] Consolo, …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … religious Jewish themes, educational songs for children, community and identity-building songs for youth, and … Lawrence A. Hoffman and Janet R. Walton (Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1992), 187-212; …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … the tradition of Calcutta (Kolkata), whose Jewish community traces its origins to Baghdadi Jewry. Sephardic … Seder , notated, arranged and composed by Martin Lawrence (London: New London Synagogue Publication, 1980). …
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 … song describing the deportation of the Viennese Jewish community in 1670 (Turniansky 1989; Steinschneider … some synagogues in Alsace, at Belsize Square Synagogue in London and K’hal Adath Jeshurun in Washington Heights, New …
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 … liturgical hymns who had emigrated from Iraq to the Jewish community of Palestine in 1935. [14] Hakham Raphael Taboush … Loss Studentship of the Jewish Music Institute (JMI) in London. Earlier drafts of this article have benefitted …
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 … The Sacred Song of the Ashkenazic Jews (University Park and London, 1976, pp. 100-101) quoting Idelsohn's work (see … of the National Library of Israel (= Ms. 24 of the Jewish Community of Vienna Library), dated before the year 1465, …
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, … occasion; source, Hit h adshut: Journal of the Kurdish Community in Israel 2 [1975]). He became well versed in the … avi, avi, avi, yoshevet galmudah, tzo'eket avi' (Amsterdam, London). The refrain is pervasive to the point that cantors …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Forgotten Conductor: Heinz Unger and His Search for Jewish Meaning, 1895−1965 . Toronto: University of Toronto … position and was therefore impelled to conduct small community orchestras and later on a provisional orchestra … Mahler: Memories and Letters . Trans. Basil Creighton. London: Time Warner Books. Sacks, Adam J. 2013. “Toward an …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly community and to the public at large. The historical period … themselves. Similarly, local synagogue repertoires from London through Trieste to Odessa evolved in conversation …