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8. Kadavumbhagam—Kochi Synagogue Song
… Karasīnāyi paḷḷi, ĕḍattu pŏkki 1. The best place in the world—Kochi is the one! The most respected Jews are from … royal boat was passing by, so he could stop and prostrate toward the synagogue (Daniel and Johnson 1995, 129); this … song is structured as a narration of the building process, beginning with the laying of the foundation with embedded …
A Flowering Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not just) for Tu BiShvat
… as “the new year of the trees.” This celebration of the beginning of the agricultural cycle at the end of winter is … assiduously documented from the early eighteenth century onwards. The most complete and ancient versions appear in the … Job 27: 7], I call you, answer me. You have created this world Rebuild my House of Worship [i.e. the Jerusalem …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… melodic demotion as a descent from the journey in the upper worlds. He also discerns proximity to speech intonation in … and notions of temporality in general; attitudes towards local identities and transnational networks; and … of Hasidic nigunim as it developed across vast territories beginning in the late eighteenth century. The nigunim …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… 18-20), the very short-lived journal initiated by the World Center for Jewish Music in Palestine. Milhaud, who was … flourishing on the trade of the Mediterranean before the beginning of the Christian era. They were then the only … 1936-1940: Jewish musical life on the eve of World War II (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992). On Milhaud’s …
‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… mystics of Safed and spready rapidly throughout the Jewish world, especially to Italy. One key figure in these Safedian … option available during Rabbi Dato’s time and even afterwards. An alternative order incorporating additional … in a manuscript dated from the end of the sixteenth or beginning of the seventeenth century, located today in the …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… such as sight singing, theory, voice-training and the beginning of harmony. He acquainted me with the Chazanic … it in musical notation. However, very quickly I became aware that it also was very heavily influenced by the German … only the first volume could be printed, for soon the world-war broke out and all cultural activities had to stop. …
Kol beru’e ma’ala umata
… Alashkar, with its intense kabbalistic content was from the beginning printed next to Gabirol's poem. Subsequently many sources unaware of the pasting together of these two texts erroneously … of the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam before World War II. According to Rev. Lopes Cardozo, it was Zwi …
13. Los árboles llorosos (CES)
… 2011a , pp. 129-130), was already very popular at the beginning of the twentieth century. The EMI collection … no. 87) and in most commercially recorded versions after World War II. The first documentation of this refrain appears on …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… creator makes the effort to publicize his creation to the world in spite of the obstacles, and that for this … [dares to] touch it immediately he is rebuked with bans and war -- if this sentence is correct, then we can claim that … shatter the fences and introduces something new! -- At the beginning they laughed at him and called him the “play of …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… and enthusiastic young musicians starting around the 1970s. Beginning with an archive of 78 rpm recordings, the field … show some age by overlooking the recently active field of world music analysis spearheaded by Michael Tenzer and … the foundation from which the field continues to move forward. … 12108 … Klezmer … Eastern Europe … Naftule Brandwein …