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Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
If you have ever searched for Hatikvah online, you were surely exposed to a barrage of…
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
Introduction
Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other…
Bernardo Feuer
Bernardo Feuer was born on May 1st, 1910 in Lemberg [Lviv], a city then part of the…
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac,…
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019…
Craig Taubman
Craig Taubman is a singer and composer, known both for his Jewish liturgical music for…
Maoz Tzur
The track opens with the blessing recited upon lighting the Hanukkah candles followed by…
'Ǝsebāhaka bakʷwelu gize, Zegevre ‘aviya wamenkǝra, Wǝ'ǝtus kǝma mǝr`āwi, 'Amlākǝ `ālem
The prayer consists of four pieces that are performed in this order at weddings. The two…
Alekhem 'eda qedoshah
The qinnot (dirges) for the Ninth of Av, the Hebrew date marking the destruction of the…
Tehillat no. 1 (Sebastian Diaz Pena)
Two compositions by Sebastian Díaz Peña survived in the Mikve Israel - Emanuel…