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Yevarekhekha
… the morning liturgy on holidays and, in the Land of Israel, on Sabbaths, too (some Sephardi communities outside Israel also follow this custom). Each word of this ancient blessing is first sung by the hazzan and then …
Moshe Havusha
… 1961 into a family of Iraqi immigrants in Jerusalem’s Beit Israel neighborhood. He absorbed the ancient Iraqi traditions of prayer and piyyutim from his … He sees himself as one of those who are preserving the ancient art of traditional payytanut and passing on the …
El Jiwneh Hagalil (Lied der galilaischen Arbeiter) – God will Build the Galilee (Galilee Worker’s Song)
… An ancient piyut [liturgical song] transformed into a Zionist … as an iconic song of the Hebrew pioneers rebuilding Eretz-Israel. [1] Since the second ’ aliyah (1904-1914) El yivneh … Alexander Weprick, Julius Chajes, Jacob Weinberg , and Israel Brandmann. [2] Kisselgoff’s transcription was printed …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… also relates about his discovery, after immigrating to Israel, that the tune he knew was similar to a Judeo-Arabic … version he heard from a colleague of his in the Israeli educational system. He indeed agrees that the tune … sharqi versions documented musically, the ones from the ancient cities of Aleppo (Syria) and Baghdad (Iraq). The …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… of the Jewish Music Research Centre under the direction of Israel Adler (Jerusalem, 2010; available in our website). … musical traditions considered to have preserved traces of ancient Jewish practices. Thus, the bulk of the present … perceived by scholars such as Idelsohn and Lurie as “ancient.” The rest of the recordings are from Aleppo (5) and …
Abraham Salman
… of Iraqi's best-known Arab singers. Salman immigrated to Israel in 1950 and was a prominent member of the Israel Broadcast Authority’s Oriental music orchestra until … such projects were his celebrated collaboration with the Israeli rocker Danny Sanderson and the Kaveret Ensemble in …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… 2. 'Bore 'ad ana,' Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew Poetry , Israel Davidson As shown above in the list of printed sources by Israel Davidson’s Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew Poetry , … versions in the article entitled “Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardic Melodies of Qinot for the Ninth of …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… in this text. Indeed, as part of his acerbic approach to Israeli musicology in general and to the work of Avenary in … 1914), viciously remarks that this is 'a fair example of Israeli musical scholarhip.' (ibid., p. 305, note 47) Rather … [i.e. the melody of She’eh ne’esar] is borrowed from an ancient melody.” Figure 9. Canon on the tune of “She’eh …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… National Sound Archives (NSA) at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem has yielded only one recording. [32] It … conventions. The transcribers’ desire to imbue the ancient Jewish melody with contemporary decorum led them to … century. The fact that we have the transcription of such an ancient melody (even if through late and limited …
Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardi Melodies of Qinot for the Ninth of Av
… of the Temple in Jerusalem) constitutes one of the most ancient musical repositories in the Sephardi liturgy. Of … of the Temple, and the recount of the tribulations of Israel in the exile and the expression of messianic hope for … people … Western Sephardi tradition … Sephardi melodies … Ancient … Qinot … Ninth of Av - Tish'ah BeAv … Songs of …