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Moshe Attias
… his rich repertoire. Mwijo, following the long-standing tradition of Moroccan Jewish musicians keeping their cards … lack of employment, mastery of songs inherited from family tradition and his unique voice, launched Cheikh Mwijo’s … paraliturgical occasions. An example is the Judeo-Arabic moralistic song “ Ya Sidi, Ma Rit Min Hawa Hani ” by R. …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… hu elohenu” was sung in Istanbul among the Maftirim , a choral brotherhood consisting of locals as well as refugees … Ottoman Turkish style, the Maftirim have maintained their oral tradition of choral singing until the present day. As a …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… Shelemay 1998). “ Yom Yom Odeh ” is an example of that tradition. Figure 1. Photograph of the famous record's … on my phone to a variety of people familiar with musical traditions from the Nahda period and/or the liturgical … Jerusalem in the years 2016/17 which was supported by a doctoral studentship of the German National Academic Foundation …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Sound example 2: She'eh ne'esar, Strasbourg tradition, Michel Heymann, NLI, Y 5913 … Sound example 3: … and limitations of written sources by looking into the oral traditions captured in field recordings and stored at … example 3 below). A comparative analysis of these three oral versions is illuminating. All of them clearly adhere to …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… ethnographic research in order to construct an oral history of Edith Gerson-Kiwi. This component of the … insight into the transfer of the German-Jewish educational tradition to Palestine / Israel. They also highlight the … and the recordings. Additional relevant sources include the oral history interviews, as well as a review and …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… Nehemiah Hocha, it poses interesting questions regarding oral transmission, the open boundaries of repertoire and the … and other social dislocations on Jewish liturgical traditions. Before addressing the questions raised by the … 2 [1975]). He became well versed in the diverse liturgical traditions of Jerusalem, especially the maqam-oriented …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… in this volume belong to a well-documented Jewish music tradition. Moreover, Karnes’s argument that “traces of the … included in his publications many songs he knew through oral transmission from his childhood (Idelsohn 1932, p. x). … land. Karnes’s model proposes that songs transmitted orally by non-professional performers were collected prior …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… crystallized into several minhagim (“customs” or “traditions”) once the printing press started to produce … (but not of the ninth verse of Psalm 28 that is added in oral tradition) for four voices is a testimony of the … have some relationship to the surviving melody found in the oral tradition of the Italian Jews. He based his assessment …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… These findings show the extent to which repertoires of traditional music have evolved in the century or more since … discography. It also barely survived in the Sephardic oral traditions which were recorded in ethnographic pursuits … the transcription of Avzaradel’s text showing that in fact, oral memory may have preserved a more integral version of …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… salvation by Esther and Mordecai, stressing the popular joy traditionally expressed on Purim for this miraculous turn of … literary genres in different languages, written and oral. A Hebrew song generates a popular saying combining … of the text of “Pesah a la mano” have emerged because of oral transmission (or mishearing of recordings), such as …