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A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… not exclusively, dominated by the singing of paraliturgical Hebrew (and at times Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic) poetry. This … as a choir with the rhythmic melody of the Arab song “Ya um al-‘abaya” (يا أم العباية) that was made famous … origin Siham (or Seham) Refki (1922-2007). The song is attributed to the Syrian composer Abdel Ghani …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… in Beregovski’s Evreiskiie narodnyie pesni [Jewish Folk Songs] – the collection that Beregovski prepared for … This mode is common in prayer tunes, in the Yiddish folk song and in the old instrumental repertoire. [1] The two … notice the presence of fragments from nign 3 in the Zionist Hebrew repertoire consolidating in Palestine since the late …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… klita ), where new Jewish immigrants are housed, taught Hebrew, supported in their first steps in the host society … interpreted) symbolic value. Chapter 5 discusses song texts, highlighting the centrality of “wax and gold”—a … layers that characterize Amhara poeticism—for understanding song texts. The idiom draws on the goldsmith’s method of …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… the time the Librarian and Director of the Archive of Folk Song at the American Folklife Center of the Library of … stage, the project consisted of the full bilingual (English/Hebrew characters) computerization of the original … s containing the musical and textual transcriptions of the songs would become available in Jerusalem. That promise …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of … life, she treasured within her memory the Judeo-Spanish songs of the North Moroccan Sephardic community, playing a … During her youth, she was surrounded by the women’s songs of the Jewish community of Tetuan. Romances (ballads) …
Moshe Cordova
… its activities in Istanbul. The Mafṭirim performed Hebrew poetry set to Turkish classical music on the Sabbaths … piyyutim (religious poems), Shirei Israel be-Eretz Haqedem “Songs of Israel in the East,” together with Binyamin Bekhar … Leo Levi interviewed Cordova in Tel Aviv. Three songs are included in Levi’s precious recording. One of them …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… 25 … 41041 … Back in 2008 we dedicated our Song of the Month to the popular piyyut “Purim, Purim, Purim … African Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew song, which had developed starting in the sixteenth century …
Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… This Song of the Month for Hanukkah, in video lecture format, … on December 13, 2020 as part of a American Friends of the Hebrew University program, examines (with audio …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… identity. In fact, they comprise a refrain dividing the song into “strophes,” a peculiar feature discussed widely in … of Jacobson’s article, one sees how the allure of Rossi’s Hebrew compositions to modern scholars impacts the … Biography of Salamone Rossi at the JMRC website Song of the month: Elohim hashivenu - A liturgical insertion …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis … collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics makes public a forgotten source from … songs, it seems that the absence of a scholar familiar with Hebrew and Yiddish folk songs was detrimental to this …