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Oedoen Partos
Oedoen Partos (Budapest, 1907 – Tel Aviv 1977, immigrated in 1938) had an impact on…
Abraham Eilam-Amzallag
Amzallag was born in Casablanca, Morocco and in 1952 immigrated to Israel alone as part…
La place traditionnelle du melisme dans la cantillation
In early Christian sources and in Italian Sephardi synagogues a long melisma appears…
Kol Nidrei
Lit. ‘all vows.’ The evening services which opens the Day of Atonement, declaring an…
Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
Since the establishment of this community, the Karaites have maintained the basic…
Steiger
A term in use in the European Jewish musical tradition to refer to the different modal…
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
Introduction
Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other…
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
Introduction
It is November 15, 2016 and I am sitting in a car, driving on a mountain…
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
This is a short extract of the article “Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan…