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Atah Ehad
… Israeli folk songs and folk dances in both secular and religious contexts. The song of the month, Atah E h ad ( … sung in the 1940s and 1950s, in the Jerusalem branch of the religious Zionist movement Bnei Akiva when in measure 10 … liturgical context, Atah E h ad was not sung exclusively by religious youth movements. In her nostalgic autobiography in …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… immigrated to Israel, which was becoming a new center of life for the Ethiopian Jewish community. The oftentimes … and Falasha History (1986) situated Falasha liturgy and religious practices in a broader Ethiopian and Christian … believed these would reflect the joys, hardships, and daily life of a community in transition/crisis—which I framed in …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… with biblical cantillation, prayers and piyyutim (songs of religious content) for Sabbaths, Holydays and life cycle events recorded in 1913 in Ottoman Palestine from … now the accuracy of Idelsohn's version and brings to life the changes that occurred in the process of …
Had Gadya
… in kibbutz Ma'abarot . The celebration of the seder , a religious ceremony anchored in the ancient practices of the …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… to other parts of Christian Europe. Toward the end of his life he wandered to England, and most likely passed away … Translation from B’nai Jeshrun: http://www.bj.org/spiritual-life/music-of-bj/invitation-to-piyyut-na/el-eliyahu/ … the Sephardic version is included in a chapter of pizmonim (religious songs with refrain) not associated with a …

Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… the purpose “of establishing an aural-spatial context for religious performance, inspiring and expressing a state of religious spirituality” (2000, 14). The present analysis … Judit. 2000. 'The Practice of Music as an Expression of Religious Philosophy among the East-Ashkenazi Jews.' …