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Four Melodies for Four Questions
… the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … even though major ceremonies of Judaism which include music take place within the circle of the immediate or … renamed Ephraim Abileah (1881-1953). A Russian-born Jewish immigrant in Palestine, Abileah was a …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… and its documentation are therefore formidable. However, musical renditions of the piyyut are rather rare and will be … that Kikhlot yeini has survived in two apparently unrelated musical strands which we have labeled “Zionist” and “Jewish” … the printed edition was hard to acquire, or Ms. Moscow, Russian State Library, Ms. Guenzburg 280/5, Italy, 18 th …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, … as “folk melody.” Indeed, the tune recalls those of Russian folksongs. However, it has not been located, thus … Europe, “Der arbeter.” The popularity of “Piramidn” in the Russian Empire and later on in the Soviet Union (where …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … center of a public controversy was “Arusiyyat,” meaning “Russian women.” A report in the NRG website from January 1, 2006, reports on Mwijo’s ferocious text against the Russian Jewish immigrants who moved to Israel after the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … communities which inhabited Latvia, namely, Jews, Roma, Russians, Germans, Lithuanians, Poles, Belarussians, Latgalians, Livornians, and Estonians (p. xiv). …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of … explained by the excitement generated by the opening of the Russian and Ukrainian archives of Judaica to Israelis in the … the then revolutionary Aleph cataloging system and in the Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew languages, engaged in this …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… of its contents in the wider context of Hasidic music research is a desideratum. The present essay, focusing … accompanied by Beregovski’s own comments to the nign in Russian was published as a digital file in M. Beregovski, … that can accompany dancing, as a slow piece among the Belorussian dynasties of Chabad and Slonim, and also as a …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… the earliest surviving specimens of Middle Eastern Jewish musical traditions. By nature of the technological … J. Zipperstein, and S An-Ski. The Worlds of S. An-Sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century. … city we also count our colleague Mr. Lurie, agent of the Russian-Jewish daily Evreiskaia Starina (Jewish Antiquity) …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… of modern Jewish identity. The internal politics of the Russian Empire towards its Jewish population shuttered down … his own Gesamtkunstwerk, ‘Yiftah’, as ‘hizzayon negini’ (musical play). Modern Hebrew writers embraced the biblical … Idelsohn is referring to the ban on Yiddish theatre in the Russian Empire issued by Tsar Alexander III on August 17, …
Raza Deshabbat
… of Welcoming the Sabbath). This rendition was composed by Russian/American cantor Pierre Pinchik (1895-1971). … Or … … Ashkenazi liturgy … Chazzanut … Contemporary Israeli Music … Contemporary Liturgy … Piano accompaniment … …