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Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem … attachment linked me to Rabbi Atiya. He was for me a teacher and a research partner, and a figure that inspired … the Moroccan Arab and Hebrew traditions of Andalusian music, and by his profound knowledge of the Hebrew language …
Bernardo Feuer
… and secondary school in his hometown and was drawn to music from an early age. Feuer learned the basics of music from his father, and later joined several liturgical … while David Hickpoff was hazzan. He also worked as a music teacher at J.N. Bialik School, where he created and …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness through music challenged the normative status of traditions of old. … him as A. Shmuel ”Lerer” Zahar, a secular Hebrew school teacher born in 1870. Your browser does not support the …
Stefanie Mockert
… Mockert, who graduated in Musicology from Humboldt University, Berlin, is a researcher at the Hebrew University's Jewish Music Research Centré. Her studies focus on the liturgical … at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Former teachers include Prof. Yaron Rosenthal (Jerusalem) and …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … among various communities, there seems to be an underlying musical structure tying together all the documented versions … 1947 to 1950, as a young man, he was an underground Hebrew teacher. In 1950, he studied at the renowned Midrash Beth …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … A lengthy introduction provides ample historical and musical contexts. Karnes did not spare any effort in trying … Yosef Milet (1889-1947) who was one of the pioneer music teachers in the Yishuv. The melody transcribed by Melngailis …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… a la mano,” authored by singer, accordionist, composer and teacher Flory Jagoda (1923–2021), who at the time of this … patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. Purim, Purim Lanu (Ladino …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… means of communication capable of surmounting estrangement. Music and music making was an area of cultural expression in which the … Folksong Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur: Qanun master, composer and teacher … Arab-Jewish … Islam … Music, Muslims and Jews …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … for the symbolic public display, through the language of music, of new evolving aesthetic ideals, of Jewish public … networks engaged in diverse types of relations (such as teacher-disciple, soloist-chorister, guilds’ membership, …
Salim Shibith (Salim Ha-Cohen)
… Shibith reportedly took the additional step of engaging a teacher of Arabic literature and poetry to augment his … of the maqam , wrote Na‘im Twayna in his series on Iraqi musicians in Al-Anba’ newspaper (June 30, 1978). It is … , read The Urban Repertoire of Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel: Instrumental Improvisation …