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A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… centerpiece of the morning service for Rosh Hashanah in the Sephardic liturgy and appears also, since at least the early … (Ten Days of Repentance). While its prominence in the Sephardic and Yemenite rites is maintained to this day … we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… the most charismatic (if controversial) leaders of American Jewry in the twentieth century, must have had a deep impact … library at the New York campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, was “Six Songs from the Jewish … in Latin letters in an inconsistent mix of Ashkenazic and Sephardic pronunciations. None of the songs have …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… what you think. It does not derive from Smetana nor from a Sephardic prayer. And an early Zionist pioneer did not … culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its … vols., 1914-1932) dedicated to the music of the “Oriental Sephardic” Jews, the distinguished musicologist Abraham Zvi …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… of the prayer and singing style known as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which originated among the Jewish communities scattered throughout the Ottoman Empire … musical influences. Contents The tradition of “Jerusalem-Sephardic hazzanut and piyyutim The baqqashot singing …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… the music within different historical contexts and local Jewish traditions. “E h ad mi yodea” is a cumulative song. … of influence.” (Tabory, 1988: 66) Variations from Sephardic and Eastern Jewish communities “E h ad mi yodea” … (2012) pointed out a few variants found in different Sephardic communities. The primary differences between each …
La Gallarda matadora
… 2 Petenera … Our Song of the Month is dedicated to Sephardic music and flamenco, two traditions that … with one another. In today's global 'world music' scene, Sephardic music (also known as Ladino music) and flamenco, … Hebrew name for the Iberian Peninsula. The Sephardic Jews' ancestors were finally expelled from Spain in 1492 and …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… singular khusid ] were cornerstones of Leon’s old-time, Jewish dance repertoire. He often referred to them as a … [ mitsve dance], alluding to their frequent use at Jewish weddings to accompany the mitsve [ritual … to participate in this pilgrimage, until then essentially Sephardic. The musical repertoire of dance played by the …
Likhvod Hatanna Haelokai (In Honor of the Holy Tanna)
… celebrations on the eighteenth of Iyar—Lag Ba’Omer—among Sephardic and Ashkenazi communities in Israel, include four … the written sources, Yaari found that the “Musta'aravim” (Jewish residents of the Land of Israel, who, for … from a repertoire that spread in recent centuries to many Sephardic and Ashkenazi communities. Two of these famous …
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… The album includes folksongs in Ladino that Sephardic Jews used to sing in events of the life cycle in their … performed by the best folksingers, mostly women, from the Sephardic communities of Turkey and the Balkan who were …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… of intensive study by a distinguished gallery of modern Jewish and non-Jewish scholars since the early … to the custom of Provence, apparently written by a Sephardic Jew residing in Provence in the fifteenth century. … Only later the song was introduced to the traditions of the Sephardic and Oriental Jews and was translated into the …