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Silvia Glocer
… musicians who had been exiled to Argentina during the Nazi regime (1933-1945). For a full biography (in Spanish), …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… the fire, these efforts were ultimately negated by the Nazi occupation of Greece in WWII and the subsequent … the expulsion from Spain (1492) and the death-camps of the Nazis (1943). For over four-hundred years leading up to the …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… BBBX, CCCX, etc. The fifth stanza (opening with the word nazir [eremite], leading some sources to name the author as Shlomo nazir) may be a later acquisition for, as we have noticed, … its previous “Jewish” life? The Jewish versions Ashkenazi lineage Ayelet Ettinger (note 1 above) remarks that in …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… a liquid] once; on this night, twice. The traditional Ashkenazi learning tune Already in the late Middle Ages Rabbi … This remark by the most authoritative source on the Ashkenazi musical minhag (custom) singles out the Four Questions … in the seder . Until the mid-20 th century, most Ashkenazi Jews intoned this text with a pentatonic learning tune …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… A number of melodies for 'Shema' Koleinu' written by Ashkenazi composers in the twentieth century are in the minor key … route and set the melody in the major scale. In Ashkenazi cantorial music, the major scale and its derivatives … the flexible rhythm characteristic of the traditional Ashkenazi prayer. In the descent to the tonic, the flat seventh …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… Bavaria/Frankfurt-Main 2. Venizia/Gorizia 3. Province Ashkenazi/Sephardi Ashkenazi/Sephardi Ashkenazi/Sephardi 3 Ashkenazi/Sephardi 4 Baer 1 Baer 2 Baer 3 …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a tradition that developed in the areas that … Ukraine and Poland and is now widely practiced in Ashkenazi congregations around the world. There are six sets of melodies or “modes” in the Eastern Ashkenazi tradition of Biblical cantillation; I will characterize …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… in Latin letters in an inconsistent mix of Ashkenazic and Sephardic pronunciations. None of the songs have … the prayer sung (or more precisely, melodeclamated) by Ashkenazic women at the end of Shabbat known as “Got fun Avrohom” …
Moritz Rosenhaupt
… in the scholarly literature concerning the Western Ashkenazi tradition. Those closer to his time thought …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… of the famous ‘Shoshanat Yaakov,’ which is sung in Ashkenazi synagogues after the evening reading of the megillah …