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Yaakov Huri
… and advocated engaging in essence. He did not agree to be called “rabbi” or invest in external appearances, such as … was the norm with Idelsohn and later Israeli ethnographers, what used to be called “key informants.” These are individuals who are …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… function to that of the reshut . This order of prayers, called Minhag Carpentras or Rit Comtadin was used by the … of this unique community to preserve in music notation whatever was left from the liturgical repertoire in the … תֶּחֱזֶ֥ינָה מֵישָׁרִֽים׃ Psalm 17:1-2 Hear, O LORD, what is just; heed my cry, give ear to my prayer, uttered …
7–9. Las prendas de la novia
… inverse order. The first version comes from Izmir. “This is what our bride says: How do you call this head? This is not called head, but wide fields. To my wide fields, let the bride rejoice with the groom. This is what our bride says: How do you call this hair? Those are …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… memoire: [3a] He was born in Latvia, near Libau, in a town called Felixburg which was renamed Kurland by the Russians. … up my position and traveled to Jerusalem, without knowing what was in store for me. In Jerusalem, I found about 300 … wife. Before they had met Ima, the Cohens once asked father what is your wife like. He replied that she is a pure soul. …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… by endless wandering and ended in personal suffering. What is missing from our understanding of Idelsohn is his … South Africa, and Midwestern American Reform Judaism. What is missing is a picture of the husband and father, … was staying with us, my younger sister was born and Father called her Yiska, the name he had given to the daughter of …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… the exile of the people and the exile of the Shekhinah, and what business does he have with rowdiness such as a … children of the diaspora. For this reason, they believed in what they saw and knew --[about] the superficial and the … but if Max Nordau was correct when he said that genius is called only the one who creates something new that never …
The Idelsohn Project
… happiness, then, retain a political undertone in our days? What is the link between music and nationalism in the modern … and Israeli composers, cantors, and scholars. Much of what continues to be taught uncritically as the history of … and politics remain manifestly absent. The man who has been called “the father of Jewish music research,” and one of the …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… carried out live during the Passover Seder in 2004. What is striking in this version, is that the number “two” … Mikhael who was educated in Jerusalem in the late 1930s, recalled an anecdote related to “Ehad mi yode’a” in Arabic … (1987) The present article hardly scratches the surface of what can be said about the linguistic ambivalence of “Ehad …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… of Al-Ala, but also those from Western Algerian urban music called djiri or ghrnati from Oudja, Tlemcen and Wahran. … the repertoire of the early morning winter vigils called bakkashot received particular attention in research … Mo'etzet ha-piyyut ha-maroqa'I (Moroccan Piyyut Council in Whatsapp). At this point the Silent 'Amidah (lasting about …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… of rhyme or assonance for clarity or intelligibility - “She called me her honey, her angel, her money”, “She spoke like a speaker, and oh what a speech, like no other speaker could speak”. This … innovation smuggled into a seemingly banal idiom” (xv). What the twenty-one-year-old Berlin would have said to all …