… focus on was his Jewish name: “Solomon! Why, it smells Biblical!” He kept repeating the name “Solomon,” Rosowsky … fixation with the idea of Jews as a primitivist link to biblical Hebraic glory. This image – shared by other … from Wagner to Mussorgsky – contrasted the good “biblical” Hebrew (or “evrei”) with the bad contemporary …

A term in use in the European Jewish musical tradition to refer to the different modal…

… whereas phrases from extant piyyutim or fragments of Biblical verses are interwoven into a new work on the basis …

… image, this is probably a Jewish reference echoing the biblical description of the Land of Israel as “a land …

… last line of the stanza rhymes with the refrain, usually a Biblical verse. In addition the Salonika version ends with a …

… to help guard against spirits and harmful things. The biblical commandment of the Priestly Blessing does not … bless the Children of Israel. It is usually assumed that in biblical times, the blessings were performed during the …

… of Ukraine includes sixty-seven phono-cylinders with biblical cantillation, prayers and piyyutim (songs of …

… Achron started to extract short phrases from traditional Biblical cantillation (in the Lithuanian pronunciation …

… of students in Jerusalem. His prodigious mastering of the Biblical text led him to secure second place in the 1962 …

… recent Zionist establishment, while maintaining a taste of biblical antiquity. This music institute would be the first … force text, which in a mere 107 pages covers a period from Biblical times and to the modern national revival, does not …