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The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… with them from the Catholic church.” [1] He offers the melody for “Emet VeEmuna” and the verses that are said … scores did not always reliably document the chanted melody. Until the 20 th century, the oral transfer of …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… without text with great devekut.” The Hassidim call this melody “The Wailing Mother” (“Ha’em hameqonenet”; Yiddish: … fact that with extreme efforts, he was able to link each melody to the specific Hassidic court from which it … the Thesaurus volumes, in order not to write the same melody twice”). Sources arranged by date (all items are in …
18. Song of Sarah-Umma (Mother Sarah)
… parties with a complex pattern of clapping, dance steps and melody. This song recounts several stories from Bible and …
24. El buceador (CES)
… water in the fragment of this song that she remembered. The melody in 6/8 in this recording is quite distinguishable in …

From Destruction to Rebuilding in the Iberian Peninsula
This article touches upon the Ninth of Av qinot (dirges), as sung at the Nefutsot Yehuda…
Alexander Uria Boscovich
Alexander Uriyah Boskovich (Cluj, Hungary, now Romania, 1907 – Tel-Aviv, 1964,…
Abel Ehrlich
Abel Ehrlich (Cranz, 1915 – Tel-Aviv, 2003 immigrated in 1939), 1997 Israel Prize…
Chasidic in America
… consists of two distinctive sections. The first is a short melody in a style reminiscent of certain types of Hassidic niggunim . Both singers sing the same melody with Weiss harmonizing a third above Oysher. The melody rises from the tonic to the fourth and then works its …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… does not support the audio element. Sung to a similar melody to that of the recording above, below is a recorded … in Saltiel’s version that illustrates its connection to the melody. Measures consisting of two and three primary beats … grouped into sections, and placed below the section of the melody to which they correspond (from the melodic ABB form). …