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Moshe Cordova
… its activities in Istanbul. The Mafṭirim performed Hebrew poetry set to Turkish classical music on the Sabbaths at the … the acting chief rabbi of Istanbul, Haim Bejerano (also a poet and composer), Itzak Algazi, the composer/singer of … of the recording of the second piece, El lo yishan , by a poet named Aharon, perhaps the late 17 th century Aharon …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… two verses of the h osha’ana by the Byzantine liturgical poet Rabbi Eleazar HaKalir (c. 570-c.640), “Amen yish’akha … poem ends with verses composing the acrostic of the poet starting “Avi ‘ad hash leta’arekh.” This last section … minhag Italiani . The final two verses, a blessing by the poet to his audience, are not part of the acrostic but they …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… made in any language by Leah Goldberg, the renowned Hebrew poet. There are also a few Jewish songs of Lithuanian … on the Lithuanian national song Kur bėga Šešupė by the poet Maironis and composer Česlovas Sasnauskas. The Hebrew … Akara (Barren) is sung ( Zemereshet #3645 ; its text is by poetess Rachel Bluwstein). Example 2 compares both songs. …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… for addressing the musical aspects of Hebrew liturgical poetry from an evolutionary diachronic perspective. Among … this fast day has not generated nearly as much Hebrew poetical creativity as the Ninth of Av, the fast day marking … common European song.” Melody emerges in this case from the poetic form and meter of the text. In his words, “the …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… Edelstadt (1866–1892), one of the radical socialist Yiddish poets who settled in the USA in 1881, penned the text of … Source: Edelshṭadṭ's shrifṭen, a zamlung fun ale zayne poetishe shrifṭen in poezye un proza , New York: Hebrew … rapidly crossed the ocean back to the lands from where the poets and composers who composed them had immigrated. …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… on midrashic interpretations and offer highly embellished poetic retellings of the story (Fleischer 2007, 470; … in Jewish lore and its prominent role in Ashkenazi sacred poetry, the meagre research concerning the melody to which … as the seventh of eleven “Ashkenazic tunes for individual poetical texts,” claiming that some of them may date back to …
The Musical Passage in Ibn Ezra's "Book of the Garden"
… The poet and philosopher Moses ibn Ezra was born in 1055 in … with the theory of music in two of his books: the book on poetic art, Kitab almuhadarah wa' lmudakarah ('Book of …
The Reading of Marka’s Poems by the Samaritans on the Sabbath (Hebrew)
… I (1968). … 0 … 23136 … Samaritans - Shomronim … Prayer … Poetry … Poets … Poet … Sabbath … The Reading of Marka’s Poems by the …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… characterized his widespread activities as a Torah scholar, poet, performer, teacher, archivist and editor. Without any … Jewry’s foremost paytan , an expert in the religious poetry sung as part of the liturgy, in paraliturgical events … of the Hebrew language and the hermeneutics of sacred poetry. Above all, his capacity as a pedagogue enabled him …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… song is in fact a later creation by a still-unidentified poet also named Shlomo. This peculiar satirical poem … the borderline between medieval secular and sacred poetry characteristic of the Andalusian Sephardic milieu. … of Kikhlot yeini tell a story, as follows: a friend of the poet called Moshe (Moses) has invited him to a banquet. The …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra, considered onle of the last great poets of the Spanish 'Golden Age' of Hebrew poetry. Ibn Ezra was born in Tudela, Spain in 1089 and died … in various locales, Ibn Ezra wrote Biblical commentary, poetry, research on Hebrew grammar, writings concerning …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… consists of two distinctive sections. The text draws from poetic formulae common in early Zionist Hebrew poetry. In Zionist songbooks and collections from the first … Michl Gelbart. Goichberg (1893-1970) was a Yiddish teacher, poet, and editor of a number of educational Yiddish books. …


