Yiddish actress and singer Regina Prager was born in Lemberg ca.1866. Prager began her…

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… authority and sway to grant legitimacy to his proposed reforms of synagogue music. He wanted to introduce polyphony … which Rossi likely would not have been able to continue his reforms of liturgical music. Rossi’s work culminated in a … century. Wolf Jellinek, a preacher at the Leopoldstäster Temple in Vienna, was the first to review Rossi’s work in a …

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Violins, Voice and Jews In the spring of 1897, on the eve of the Russian Orthodox…

Tish-nigunim in the Post-vernacular Era This study aims to trace the unique…

A blessing for the bridegroom usually sung immediately after Song 28. It is…

… Jews) as far as the tunes of the ancient Levites of the Temple in Jerusalem. This hypothesis was grounded on the … to the Arabian Peninsula after the destruction of the first Temple in Jerusalem (586 CE). The Zionist nostalgia for …

… word “tamid” (a reference to the perpetual sacrifice in the Temple in Jerusalem) that corresponds to the last word of … Numbers 28, 23), recalls the close association between Temple sacrifices and synagogue prayers. Since the loss of the Temple, prayer has fulfilled the function of sacrifice. The …