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El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… The Sephardic copla, El incendio de Saloniki (The Fire of … to the medieval romances noticieros (informative, narrative songs), due to its recounting of historical events. 7 … un pan amargo, ni con agua no se va. Las palombas van volando haciendo estrución. Ya quedimos arrastrando sin tener …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew … of the Binding of Isaac and was also used for additional songs in Hebrew and Yiddish, the content of which relates to … with the Indication Be-niggun ‘Akedah (Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Cod. Reuchlin 7, 63r ) The second song …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… Studying songs for Passover offers us a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most … song “Piramidn.” The song, whose first line is “In dem land fun piramidn,” appears in Samuel Bugatch’s Songs of Our …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… Our song of the month concerns a Sephardic song commonly sung on the … and Shavuot holidays, which is derived from a group of songs often referred to as the ‘cycle of Moses’ due to their … Ten Commandments, and the arrival of the Israelites to the land of Canaan. Geographically, our song is found throughout …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… in a car, driving on a mountain road that winds down along the Lebanese coastline, overlooking the Mediterranean … and poetic texts with melodies from pre-existing popular songs, a practice with roots in the sixteenth century that … living in the modern state of Israel from the historical landscape from which the famous record emerged, but also the …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… In his pioneer publication Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, … is found in the last of a series of five folios with songs for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, all framed by the seli … prior to the “immigration of Jews from Ashkenaz to Poland in the sixteenth century,” is precarious. …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… “From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi … recorded items (each one comprising several units, such as songs and dialogues), which, although already digitized and … Israel, Gerson-Kiwi outlined a picture of a Jewish academic landscape in Palestine / Israel that was characterized by …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis collection . … spoken by Jews throughout the Baltic provinces” and in Kurland (Courland, the part of Latvia where many Jews lived) …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… 2 … 10 … The 78rpm recordings that are still emerging from archives … show, among many other matters, that widely popular songs from the turn of the 20th century are absent from late … yarem, amán. The song is found among Sephardim from the Island of Rhodes. Two versions from Rhodes are a written …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… I spent the summer of 1989 living in a Nazareth Illit (today Nof … … But the community underwent (and still does) a hard landing in Israel. In 1989 most of the immigrants had … 4). Chapter 6 provides detailed musical analysis of several songs: a solo voice and masinqo performance, a solo voice …