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Inventing Jewish Music

… The very nature of Jewish identity was being questioned from within Jewish society and challenged from without. Traditional music, once a symbol of Jewish … growing awareness that Jewish musical practices differed from community to community, from country to country, turned …

Mesopotamian Music Theory Since 1977

… had been published by 1977, including the Hurrian hymn from Ras Shamra/Ugarit. Since that time, seven more pertinent …

Moyshelekh Un Shloymelekh (part 2)

… One example is a song commemorating victims of a pogrom, which opens: 'Beneath the green trees, Moyshelekh and … and sounds like a Jewish prayer. This is a main difference from Brounoff's lyrical melody in Unter di Grininke Beymelekh … sudden change of harmony: a modulation of the tonic chord from minor to major. The scale used in this stanza is the …

Sara Levi-Tanai

… of Yemenite Jewish immigrants. Her parents emigrated from Yemen as part of the wave of Jewish migration in the … culture. In 1964, her Book of Ruth won her an award from the Théâtre des Mondes in Paris. In 1973 she was awarded … and Levi-Tanai, reflecting her extensive network with prominent dance figures during her career. … See the …

Had Gadya in Israeli Culture

… below. Detail of the Aramaic and Yiddish translation from the 1526 Prague Haggadah. The song appears for the first … print, perhaps as early as the fifteenth century. Detail from Yiddish translation of H ad Gadya in the 1590 Prague … a transitional form, transmitted perhaps by Jews expelled from France throughout the fourteenth century, among …