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A.Z. Idelsohn and the Study of the Traditional Pronunciations of Hebrew (Hebrew)
… music of the various Jewish ethnic groups, presented to the scholarly world in his monumental ten-volume Thesaurus of …

Plurivocality in the Liturgical Music of the Jews of San‘a (Yemen)
… studies of this Jewish tradition. Indeed, several scholars have striven - each in his or her own way - …

Jewish Singing and Boxing in Georgian England
… and comprehensiveness destined to open a new era in the scholarly study of the field. … 23458 … Jewish music … …

The Balaĝ Instrument and its Role in the Cult of Ancient Mesopotamia
… the percussion instrument alone (Kilmer 1995: 465). Other scholars understood the term balaĝ as a general word for …

Greek Epic and Kypriaka: Why “Cyprus Matters”
… evolution as the Aeolic-Ionic world. Recent postcolonial scholarship has stressed the rapid “hybridity” of Cypriot …

Aristophanes’ Phrynichos and the Orientalizing Musical Pattern
… to the Eastern lifestyle and culture. The insistence of scholars on reading the earlier evidence about orientalia … — a connection that, in turn, “influenced the modern scholarly association of αβpoσυvη with political vβpi~” …

Ancient Music in the Modern Classroom
… 1940, the oldest example of musical notation available to scholars dated from 800 BCE; it employed cuneiform …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Surprisingly, this topic has been the subject of little scholarly attention, despite the significant number of … recent publications of intricate cultural-historical scholarship concerning the Binding of Isaac within the … of the Niggun ‘Akedah Having considered the current scholarship on Niggun ‘Akedah , we move to discuss the …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… of “Piramidn” in any folk tune collection. The agency of scholars also determined the fate of Yiddish songs. … after Edlestadt died, Reyzen’s younger brother and Yiddish scholar Zalmen Reyzen (Reisin; 1887-1941) mentions in his …
Moshe Attias
… now made sense, as Meknes was a city of great Torah scholars. To honor Mwijo, Baba Sali asked Mwijo to drink …