… floats in heaven and on earth.” However, the content of the religious song is subverted, not necessarily in a positive …

… prepared for publication during the last years of his life but did not live to see it published. It was edited and …

… time. The Walachian tune found its way into almost every religious service of the yearly cycle. Rabbi Israel Baal …

… “Mitzvah Tanz. Devotional dance associated with a religious mitzvah (commandment). Since rejoicing at weddings … the wedding couple, which is, as everyone knows, a religious commandment. Consequently we actually find in Koa … invites various guests up to dance the mitsve tants , the religious obligation to dance with the bride. Max wrote the …

… melody of “ H ag Purim” was previously set to a variety of religious poems in Hebrew and Yiddish. It was also featured … is conceived by the secular Israeli Jewish society, from a religious festival to a children's festival of carnavalesque …

… The Baqqashot (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish communities. … the court music of the Ottoman Empire during the author’s lifetime. Moreover, the lehanim (plural of lahan, tune or …   The adoption of the maqam principle as the basis of the religious music of the Sephardi Jews in the Ottoman Empire, …

… I am still living the life of those times…  Theodore Bikel    On October 2, 2014, … firmly attached to the land, free from the shackles of religious Jewish Orthodoxy and sexually appealing. It … to pass at midnight! As hinted above, Bikel transforms this religious poem into an unassuming folk song liberated from …

… last social processes blurred the distinction between the religious and non-religious spheres of Jewish music-making since late 19 th … this reassessment, allowing for new insights into Jewish life in Central Europe in the last centuries, as they have …

… from an early age, which exposed him to the richness of the religious vocal repertoire of his community and to the Iraqi … hinder his general education and the study of Torah in the religious school he attended. Although his father …