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The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… the period) Western musical taste of the small but affluent Sephardic community of the Netherlands in the 18th century. … arranged as a mini-cantata. We titled this cantata “Song for the Inauguration of the Portuguese Synagogue” … as a liturgical reshut , an introductory piyyut that Sephardic cantors used to insert at the opening of the …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… and poetic texts with melodies from pre-existing popular songs, a practice with roots in the sixteenth century that … of Aleppian ḥazzanim on the liturgical styles of the Sephardic communities in Jerusalem (1997), couched his … here: http://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/content/jerusalem-sephardic-tradition (accessed April 2, 2020). The reactions …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… structure [that] gives it the stamp of the common European song.” Melody emerges in this case from the poetic form and … to “She’eh ne’esar”: the well-entrenched presence of Sephardic poetry in Ashkenazi prayer, and the overall … poets, “She’eh ne’esar” appears more infrequently in Sephardic liturgical music sources. One source shows that in …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… in the order of prayers for the Ninth of Av among the Sephardic and Oriental Jewish communities. The identity of … ('Poetry as an expression of spiritual reality in the late Sephardic piyyut ,' [In Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies … and North African versions in the article entitled “Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardic Melodies …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… identity. In fact, they comprise a refrain dividing the song into “strophes,” a peculiar feature discussed widely in … 1957 (NLI, Y 3358) These verses are not included in the Sephardic minhag im that we were able to consult and to … to the use of the Italiani minhag in the overwhelmingly Sephardic community of Salonica. Yet, even more intriguing …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… show, among many other matters, that widely popular songs from the turn of the 20th century are absent from late … of the modern discography. It also barely survived in the Sephardic oral traditions which were recorded in … (CES), a studio ensemble comprising the most popular Sephardic singers of Salonica. It was still mentioned in an …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… 25 … Back in 2008 we dedicated our Song of the Month to the popular piyyut “Purim, Purim, Purim … which contributed to the early dissemination in Western Sephardic and North African Jewish communities of the new … events. “Purim, Purim, Purim lanu” became ubiquitous in the Sephardic repertoire, to the point that its first verse also …
Moshe Cordova
… therefore an alternative, even if diminished, center for Sephardic synagogues whose liturgy was based on the Turkish … Yair Elnadav (1921-2012). Elnadav, half Yemenite and half Sephardic, became the caretaker of Cordova’s lore. He … piyyutim (religious poems), Shirei Israel be-Eretz Haqedem “Songs of Israel in the East,” together with Binyamin Bekhar …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… life, she treasured within her memory the Judeo-Spanish songs of the North Moroccan Sephardic community, playing a substantial role in the … release, Ballads, Wedding Songs, and Piyyutim of the Sephardic Jews of Tetuan and Tangier, Morocco (1983). …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… but rather to the diasporic Jewish commonwealth of Sephardic and Oriental pedigree and, to a certain measure, … that open the eve service of each Holiday according to the Sephardic tradition. By performing this psalm with this … as a choir with the rhythmic melody of the Arab song “Ya um al-‘abaya” (يا أم العباية) that was made famous …