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Lekha dodi
… Taken from one of the major anthologies of Curaçao’s Jewish liturgical music that was edited and annotated by Cantor Norman Swerling. In it appear a few Portuguese melodies that have not been traced back to the community’s musical archive but appeared in Swerling’s …
Levi's Avinu Malkeinu
… Between Tradition and Modernity: The High Holy Days Melodies of Minhag Ashkenaz … Hazzan, Hazan, Chazzanut, Hazzanut, Hazzanim, Hazzanim – Cantors, Cantors – Hazzanim, Cantors … Hazzan, Hazan, Chazzan, …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… The passing of the founder of the Yiddish theater spawned a touching … a modern Hebrew ‘prophet-seer’ not on the poet but on the cantor, ‘hazzan.’ In an article announcing the opening of … it towards Jerusalem. Here we find the equation hazzan (cantor) = hozze (Prophet): ‘… the heart of the Jews will …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… Bresler , Judith R. Cohen and Risto Pekka Pennanen In 2008 the Jewish Music Research Centre released a 4-CD package entitled An Early 20th-century Sephardi Troubadour: The Historic Recordings of Haim Effendi of Turkey . Catering … for Jewish Music, with two cassettes: R. Isaac Algazi: Cantorial Compositions, Piyyutim and Judeo-Spanish Songs, …
The Idelsohn Project
… Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in the world is “Hava Nagila” (“Come, let us rejoice”). This … on the oeuvre of the musicologist, composer, educator, and cantor, Abraham Zvi Idelsohn (1882-1938), his life is still …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… He wrote at that time: “A few days ago, we spoke over the phone about ‘Ehad mi yode’a’ in Aramaic. I am interested in the origins of the tune. The song is known to me from my … three other recordings of the Aleppo version by prominent cantors from the Aleppine communities in Latin America: …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the recent passing of ethnomusicologist Avigdor Herzog … and the Southern German liturgical tradition from Cantor Avigdor Unna (1904-1982). In addition, Avigdor was …
El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… his collection has been digitized professionally in full at the George Blood facilities in Philadelphia , a world leader in the digital recovery of historical recordings. Among these … about Gabriel Sayag. He appears on the record label as “cantor of the Great Synagogue of Oran,” while the name of …
Hin’ni Haaniyah Mimaas (Here I am, poor in worthy deeds)
… Female-Cantor’s Prayer: Text and Cantorial Recitative by Eliyahu … Sarah Grabiner (mezzo-soprano), Aya Schleifer (piano) From the event “Traditional Music for the Reform Synagogue” At the World Congress of Jewish …
Rabbi Hanna Tiferet Siegel
… Rabbi Hanna Tiferet Siegel is a spiritual guide, a Rabbi of the renewal Judaism, and the first woman to receive the title of Eshet Hazon (woman … … Spiritual leader, Rabbi, Cantor, Composer … Renewal Judaism … North America … Female …