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Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
… professional evaluation,” wrote back in 1984 the internationally renowned Yiddish singer Nechama Lifshitz in a … and archives, most especially at the Sound Archives at the National Library of Israel. It includes a selection of a … a researcher of the JMRC specializing on Yiddish song and culture in Eastern Europe prepared a detailed scholarly …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… and European Zionism, mid-century Yiddish secular culture, the contemporary klezmer scene, and even into … 1985. I once found the text in a songbook published by the National Radical Schools (a Jewish nationalist network of Yiddish schools that was founded …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… versions of this paper were presented at the First International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music … cantillation has co-existed with tonality in European culture since 1600. Ne’eman observes that melodic variants … . Tel-Aviv: Tel-Aviv University and the Council for Culture and Art. …
Assaf Shelleg
… in the Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department at Washington University in St. … romanticist nationalism amid the dissemination of modernist … cultures, returns that among other things invalidated national and territorial tropes. Shelleg is also a …
Haggai Ben-Shammai
… of the world’s leading scholars of Karaism and Judeo-Arabic culture. His interests include also Judaeo-Arabic Bible … as co-director of the Center for the Study of Judaeo-Arabic Culture and Literature (Ben-Zvi Institute, since 1995); … Genizah Project (since 2003); and Academic Director of the National Library of Israel (October 2009-September 2015). …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts (hereby: IMHM) at the National Library of Israel, we can reconstruct with a … the melody of Shofet kol ha’aretz in the manuscript of the National Library in Prague, Narodni Knihovna v Praze VI Ea 2 … against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… new tunes, composed in the spirit of the new Hebrew musical culture, had a lively metric character calling for … , found in his archive at the Department of Music of the National Library of Israel, catalogued as Mus. 190 E 15 (1). … oratorio The Holyday of Freedom , a musical celebration of national liberation beyond religious connotations. His …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… off to those who could afford to pay. As a result, “The National Bank of Greece outbid the Jewish community for the … from Spain and Portugal in 1492 carried their Judeo-Spanish culture with them as they migrated, including literary … of the song available, including quite a few at the National Library of Israel (NLI). Below are a several …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… cassettes are now accessible via the Sound Archive of the National Library of Israel . Rabbi Atiya crossed the … at the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts at the National Library of Israel. He was also my partner in … personality, which bridged Arab-Muslim and Arab-Jewish cultures without unnecessary clichés. The recognition of his …
Bernardo Feuer
… a Jewish folk choir with the aim of spreading Jewish culture through the preservation and transmission of their … events and in Chilean musical festivals, such as the International Choral and Folklore Art Festival organized by the …