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David Berger
… from the suburbs of Chicago, Cantor Berger received a BA in Religious Studies with a focus in Jewish Studies from the …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… in Binder’s book, would sound familiar to most Jews with a religious background but would be meaningful to secular Jews … L’artzeinu. The Yiddish lyrics of this song are deeply religious in nature and talk about the coming of the … the Yiddish world with its unique combination of secular, religious, Zionist, and radical ideologies found their own …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… the purpose “of establishing an aural-spatial context for religious performance, inspiring and expressing a state of religious spirituality” (2000, 14). The present analysis … Judit. 2000. 'The Practice of Music as an Expression of Religious Philosophy among the East-Ashkenazi Jews.' …
Assaf Shelleg
… of Musicology and Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia (2011–2014), …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… liturgical context, and is transformed into an independent religious song, performed on a weekday with instrumental …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… English translations and interpretations of liturgical and religious Jewish themes, educational songs for children, …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… These additions also blurred the borderline between the religious and mundane spheres in this domestic Jewish … text phrase by phrase, a common learning technique in religious schools in Eastern Europe. Our website includes … The Jewish Songster: Music for Voice and Piano (Brooklyn: Religious Schools of Congregation Beth Israel, 1925) and …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… the Sephardic version is included in a chapter of pizmonim (religious songs with refrain) not associated with a …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… That the major Hebrew websites respectively dedicated to religious and secular songs included Kikhlot yeini in their … one transcribed and published by Isaac Levy as a Sephardic religious song and recorded by Voice of the Turtle in 2000. … part of his concert repertoire. True to the dual secular/religious nature of our song, as noted previously, …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… this fire was punishment for the sins of not keeping the religious laws of Shabbat ( los pekados del shabbat ).” 8 El …