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Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… known in the present have generated a rather dense, one-hundred year old literature on the subject. This quest produced … revolutionary research” on the subject and delivered in live performances to the (un)critical acclaim of the … Zvi Idelsohn carried the first thorough analysis of the cross-cultural melody-type to which Hatikvah belongs. In the …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… which among other projects created artistic pieces inspired by traditional Yemenite Jewish dances. She later went on … behind her work. Today she continues to perform across Israel works from the Yemenite Jewish male and female … of days. The recorded performance of the song featured in this article (from Avraham's 1995 album Neve Midbar ) …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… in the American Yiddish repertoire for Purim. It has appeared in many American Jewish songsters at least since Samuel … they tried to do in relation to other holidays. P. Lwow is credited in the zamelbukh with the arrangement of the song … in the early Yiddish theater. ‘Flaker, Feirel, Flaker’ crossed the ocean rapidly, and Shulamith became a favorite …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… common phrases facilitates comparison between the modes. Paired comparisons are especially revealing; they show … each mode into relief. Section 10 explores a single phrase across the six modes, and it corroborates ideas introduced … My way is hid from the Lord / And by my God my cause is ignored). [10] Example 1b arranges the verse in four lines to …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… me a teacher and a research partner, and a figure that inspired great admiration and respect. Extreme humbleness … teacher, archivist and editor. Without any structured institutional support, Rabbi Meir, as he was known among … Archive of the National Library of Israel . Rabbi Atiya crossed the boundaries between “the field” and “academia,” …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… southern Germany and northern France. However, it also acquired two new layers of meaning. The first was a Jewish … [3] portraying the anti-Jewish persecutions which occurred from 1096 onwards often mention the Binding of Isaac. At … References to the Niggun ‘Akedah We have never come across the indication be-niggun ‘Akedah over an ‘Akedah …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… in musical practice, and the Iraqi musicians provided an incredibly rich case study to investigate. In Baghdad, Jewish … had not only traversed cultural worlds, but had also suffered a deep loss of status. Having been prominent, commercial … Orchestra , Firkat Alnoor and other Jewish-Arab ensembles across the country, as well as various ensembles dedicated to …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… on these unique days of social confinement generously shared with me their resources and knowledge: Dr. Gila Flam … Jewish songs in Yiddish conceived in America rapidly crossed the ocean back to the lands from where the poets and … to Eastern Europe. Political tactics and pamphlets pioneered by the immigrant socialist circles of New York and …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… interpretation. Today, the famous record is carefully stored in the shelves of the Lebanese Foundation for Arab Music … according to these musical forms and/or combined Hebrew sacred and poetic texts with melodies from pre-existing popular … but also render it evidence of a historical landscape of cross-territorial and Arab-Jewish musical exchange. This …
Clara Wenz
… Volkes (German National Academic Foundation), 2016-2019 Mildred Loss Studentship, Jewish Music Institute (JMI), SOAS, … Africa and Performing al-Andalus: Music and Nostalgia across the Mediterranean” (Review), Ethnomusicology Forum 25 …