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Four Melodies for Four Questions
… the character of the texts included in this compilation. As modernity made its inroads into Jewish homes, more metric … strata of the Haggadah . The questions appear almost literary as we know them today in the oldest stratum of the … between the question (traditional) and the answer (modern). Put differently, in the process of oral …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… fields) and also translated important books of his era into Hebrew. [1] Performance Context “Eli Eliyahu” is … sung by the Jews of Baghdad. Eli Eliyahu Text Transliteration from Hebrew Eli Eliyahu Eli Eliyahu / Eli Eliyahu … book “Elef zemer ve-‘od zemer,” a practical collection of modern and old Hebrew songs intended for Israeli singing …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… Hebrew manuscripts includes various Iraqi, Cochini (from Kerala in India), Algerian and Italian manuscripts which … liner notes Mazor writes: “One of the oldest songs in the [modern] Hebrew repertoire. The author's name, Shlomo, is … song with an “Oriental” flavor. So far we have covered the modern Zionist story of Kikhlot yeini . However, what about …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… and repertoires in an attempt to entertain a fickle, modernizing, even assimilating public. The cameraman who filmed the wedding-dance sequence in the Polish …
Sounds from the Divine: Religious Musical Instruments in the Ancient Near East
… if not all, known cultures of the ancient as well as the modern world. Musical sounds — whether created by human … the integral function of a communication medium. As for general religious beliefs, communication through music was not …
Ancient Music in the Modern Classroom
… Music . Yet, as is famously known, the book devotes only several paragraphs to the first 39,000 years of music, … last musicologist to treat ancient music as part of a general music-history survey. Especially prominent in the 1950s … … Music education … Education … Ancient Music in the Modern Classroom … Yossi Maurey …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… omitting the character of Sarah altogether. Midrashic literature elaborates on the narrative at length, and it is … accorded the Binding of Isaac a significant role in pre-modern times (Katz 2008). A Yiddish prose adaptation of the … Yet the most outstanding retelling of this story in pre-modern Yiddish literature is the epic poem Yudisher shtam …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness … both in the Yiddish-speaking world as well as in the modern Hebrew song repertoire in the Land of Israel. I am … in London (1925), Moscow (1935) and Buenos Aires in several editions (from 1946 onwards, by the David Edelstadt …
Moshe Attias
… father of Sliman Elmaghribi, another musician of Mwijo’s generation. This ensemble also included Mimoun Turjeman and … repertoire also reveals some of the ambivalent aspects of modern Moroccan Jewish identity. Religious zeal intertwines with modern secular practices, while rooted musical and textual …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… magnificent Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, is one of several works by Jewish and few non-Jewish composers (such as … Jewish Music on August 3, 1978, which would launch the very modern phenomenon subsequently labeled the “Jewish Baroque.” … proportions and contextualize it as a phenomenon of Jewish modernity’s drive to create a “normative” historical Jewish …