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57. In the India Kingdom
… The introduction to songs 57-59 is available here . Venus … face flushed with rage. The others there abused her with words of disdain, 3. Telling tales of scandal, tales that …
52. The Song of “Anokhi”
… nāḷilu 1. Adam’s Creator came down to Sinai To speak the word “Anokhi.” He gave the Torah to everyone At the … other God. You must not swear by the name of God. Untrue words you must not speak.” All this is commanded by Anokhi. … our minds At the time when we heard “Anokhi.” Much of this song is a direct translation of the Hebrew piyyut Yarad ’El …
19. Josepf the Righteous (Yossef HaTzaddiq)
… A performance of three related and sometimes separate songs about Joseph, sung for weddings and other good occasions. The first exclaims at how Joseph's … Potiphar's wife. Part III is a popular chorus in the words of Serah Bat Asher, announcing to Jacob, “Joseph is …
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 … , from the Hebrew niggun —melody) are chants, some with words but most without, historically performed primarily by … and melodies of Yiddish popular and Hebrew quasi-Hasidic songs that were instrumentally performed at Israeli Hasidic …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… The Jewish liturgy was never a sealed and unified corpus. … order of the Jews of Provençe, the subject of this Song of the Month, fulfill a similar function to that of the … variety in the length of the verses selected (e.g. ten words in Psalm 4:2 versus five in Psalms 5:2). Yet, there is …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… This document, in the form of a synoptic table, incorporates three versions of … the synagogal modes and “Zemiroth” as well as Jewish Folk-Songs. At home I received an orthodox education and … a publisher to put out my JEFTAH, of which I wrote both the words and music and which was the first Hebrew opera ever …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great … Jewish culture, with a new national repertoire of Zionist songs, the internationalization of Jewish scholarship, and … she heard him humming and talking to himself, murmuring the words Yifta h and Yiska many times out loud. After telling …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… The passing of the founder of the Yiddish theater spawned a … and the fragrance of the fields and the vineyards, and the songs of the real shepherd who longs for his beloved [not … a convoluted modern Hebrew prose, Idelsohn uses new Hebrew words coined by his mentor and neighbor in Jerusalem, …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… This is a short extract of the article “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan … of the cantor in loud voice, with special stress on the key words “ma’ariv aravim”. The phases “Um’sader et hakokhavim”, … as a choir with the rhythmic melody of the Arab song “Ya um al-‘abaya” (يا أم العباية) that was made famous …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv, aka the … the time the Librarian and Director of the Archive of Folk Song at the American Folklife Center of the Library of … Evreiskie narodnye napevy bez slov [ Jewish Tunes without Words , 1946]: Nign No. 3 … Songs of Palestinian Jews from …