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41. The Ten Songs of King Solomon
… was spread. 10. The tenth to be sung, by God’s command, the Jewish People must sing. Years have passed: five thousand … Bombay. He once impressed some learned men with whom he was studying, by consulting his wife to answer their question of … melody without clapping in a 1994 recording in Nevatim. The musical version used here was performed by the Nirit …
Rabbi David Buzaglo
… is an opportunity to revive his biography in our website. A musical and rabbinical prodigy since his early days, Rabbi … from his mother and father at an early age and sent to study in Marrakesh under the guidance of Rabbi Haim Attar, … exponentially in the collective memory of the Moroccan Jewish diaspora. [3] After receiving a traditional Jewish …
Hadas Rishony
… Hadas Rishony has a BA in Psychology and Musicology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She … on several projects led by Professor Edwin Seroussi at the Jewish Musical Research Center and was also a teaching … adult musicians. Supervised by Professor Roni Granot, this study argues that absolute pitch is a rare attribute and …
Ezra Barnea
… Above all Barnea was an educator, but also a synagogue musician, paytan and cantor, an expert on the Jerusalem … of the Jews from Aleppo (Syria). In 1948, he began studying at the Shaarei Tziyon Yeshiva with Rabbi Ben-Zion … for Religious Music, renamed “ Renanot – Institute for Jewish Music” in Jerusalem, an institution dedicated to the …
A Flowering Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not just) for Tu BiShvat
… cycle at the end of winter is a relatively newcomer to the Jewish calendar, going back “only” to Mishnaic times. … emerged therefore from a rich multicultural poetic and musical background that can be traced back to the medieval … de las flores according to Larrea Palacín (1954: 164 ) The study of El debate de las flores deserves reflection about …
8. El Debate de las Flores
… on more humorous topics (Weich Shahak 2012). For a detailed study and relevant bibliography about this song, see on our … Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not only) for Tu BiShvat.” In Jewish Music Research Centre Website. Weich-Shahak, Susana. 2012. …
Yaakov Huri
… relations dominating the encounters between European ethnomusicologists and their subjects of inquiry in Israel. Our … as rabbi. Huri belonged to the Zionist sector of the Jewish community. This sector, unlike the yeshivah students … dedication to cantorial studies demanded that he deepen his study even further. The Huri family, Baghdad After being …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… Tish-nigunim in the Post-vernacular Era This study aims to trace the unique characteristics of a type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European … as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is …
5. Mi-Pi El (De Boca del Dio)
… of Simhat Torah. Despite its enormous diffusion throughout Jewish communities and its appearance in countless printed … in and outside Israel. Among the most important historical musical documents we possess of the melody of ‘Mi-pi El’ is … in the Sephardi Community in Vienna , ca. 1881-1925: A Study of Change in Religious Music. Ph.D. diss. University …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… Childhood and early musical career Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur (يوسف زعرور) was born … music making would hinder his general education and the study of Torah in the religious school he attended. Although … This generational tension between well-to-do Baghdadi Jewish families and their youngsters who loved music and …