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Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… إلنا خل / فوق النخل) “Fog al-Nakhal,” is nowadays one of the most popular songs in the Middle East. It is a muwwashshah, “girdle” song, a … “Kum Am Nachal” (קום עם נחל) In 1998, Israel-born Syrian cantor-composer Menachem Mustacchi of the Syrian Jewish …
Moshe Preis
… Moshe Preis was born in Lodz, Poland on May 15, 1914. His father, Shlomo Aryeh Preis, died when he was a small child. To make some money, he would sing in the courtyards of apartment blocks and people would throw … professor, at age 19, he was offered the major position of Cantor at the prestigious Kazinczy Street Synagogue in …
Jeff Klepper
… Jeff Klepper is an American Jewish Cantor, and one of the pioneers of the singer-songwriter style that took over American …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… This is a short extract of the article “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is … the audio element. 5:55 Half qaddish, performed by the cantor. The first part of this prayer is sung to the melody …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly community and to the public at large. The historical period under … conceptualization of an endangered “heritage” of solo cantorial music (at times framed within a Jewish national …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… first stop for those wishing to have some understanding of the complicated subject. Indeed, nearly everything about the history of Jews and jazz music is difficult to … only marginally so. Later in his life Smith would serve as cantor in a Black Jewish synagogue in New York. In an …
Moshe Cordova
… 1881 – d. Tel Aviv, Israel, 22.12.1965) was a master of the Turkish ma ka m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge about Cordova’s early … from Izmir, moved to Istanbul to become the ḥ azzan (cantor) of the Italian synagogue, a position he held until …
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 lanu” (“Purim, … in Amsterdam around 1614, invited to serve as hazzan (cantor) of the new, flourishing Portuguese Jewish community. …
Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… This Song of the Month for Hanukkah, in video lecture format, reveals the fascinating story of the well-known Maoz Tsur . This … … Hazzan, Hazan, Chazzan, Chazzanut, Hazzanim, Hazzanim – Cantors, Cantors – Hazzanim, Cantors … Hanukkah … Chanukkah …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… into several minhagim (“customs” or “traditions”) once the printing press started to produce prayer books in rapidly increasing numbers to satisfy the expanding demand. Many unique liturgical passages, whose … of three verses from Psalm 80 which is recited by the cantor before the reading from the second Torah scroll …