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Moshe Attias
… his rich repertoire. Mwijo, following the long-standing tradition of Moroccan Jewish musicians keeping their cards … in opposition to his later signature appearance with a Western suit (or at times, a Moroccan djellaba ) with a … Mwijo’s militant allegiance to the orthodox, right-wing Sephardic party Shas and its leader, Aryeh Deri. Again, the …
Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardi Melodies of Qinot for the Ninth of Av
… one of the most ancient musical repositories in the Sephardi liturgy. Of particular musical richness are the qinot of the Sephardi communities of the Western Hemisphere. Perhaps the intense attachment of the … prayer book which includes the prayers for the four traditional fast days. The book is usually entitled Seder …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… The Sephardic copla, El incendio de Saloniki (The Fire of … Greeks, and Muslims, each developing their own cultural traditions and speaking in their own languages.” 5 The Jews … melodies of the other versions, in contrast, remain in a Western minor modality. The above sound examples provide …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… and with the departure of the additional “soul at rest,” traditionally granted to believers during the Sabbath. … of a baqqasha for Motzei Shabbat. It is performed by Sephardic and Eastern (Oriental) Jews in a variety of … for Kol Israel (Israel Radio) in the 1950’s. This is a very Westernized version of the Ottoman melody and is very …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… 2. Venizia/Gorizia 3. Province Ashkenazi/Sephardi Ashkenazi/Sephardi Ashkenazi/Sephardi 3 … 13 th century containing our poem (twice) is the French (Western Ashkenazi) order of prayers for the High Holy Days, … is an order of prayers for the entire year according to the tradition of Worms. Before the poem “Melitz yosher ya’amod, …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a tradition that developed in the areas that comprise today Lithuania, Belarus, Western Russia, Ukraine and Poland and is now widely … “te’amim” and “ta’am.” The transliteration follows modern ( Sephardi ) Hebrew. [10] Jacobson 2013 and Strauss Sherebrin …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… in Latin letters in an inconsistent mix of Ashkenazic and Sephardic pronunciations. None of the songs have … in Binder’s piano arrangement, which serve to add a Western chromaticism to the harmony rather than to create … explained. The individual phrases can all be located in traditional liturgical poems and the lyrics, like many of …
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 … Hatikvah on canonic Hebrew texts. Imber, a Jew raised in a traditional family, certainly had access to the Hebrew … melos” that is cross-culturally widespread and of which the Western Sephardic piyyut Lekh le-shalom geshem (see detailed …
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… of the city. The Synagogue's History In 1665, the Sephardic community decided to build a beautiful new … (Nusah) The synagogue conducts prayers according to the Western European Sephardic tradition, with minimal, late kabbalistic elements included. …
Brakha Tzefira
… neighborhood in Jerusalem, where most of the residents were Sephardic Jews from Salonika. Tzefira had unpleasant … as well as that of the Ashkenazi teachers who came from a Western European background, to the oriental melodies. … of Tzefira singing her songs, in that it helped expose the traditions of different ethnic groups to each other, …