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«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… later how they spoke constantly of “me personally, my studies at the conservatory and compositions, my potential … 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 …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… number is given a symbolic meaning that is connected to Biblical figures, concepts, and objects related to Judaism: … Samuel. Sefer HaNigunim . Brooklyn: Ḥevrat Nihoah, 1985. Studies Bohlman, Philip and Otto Holzapfel. The Folk Songs … in Israel and among the nations,” Assufot: Annual of Jewish Studies 2 (5748[1988]), 201-226. (In Hebrew) Habermann, A.M. …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… text not only fails to acknowledge many earlier substantial studies on the subject but, in spite of a short discussion … of Hatikvah . Alternatively, scholars have invocated the Biblical ‘Vision of the Dried Bones’ (Ezekiel 37, 11-12) as … Central and Eastern Europe. On the other hand, the “Biblical” thesis speaks more about a desire to ground the …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… Johanna. “Bridal Songs and Ceremonies from San’a.” In Studies in Biblical and Jewish Folklore , edited by R. Patai, F.L …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… liturgical music of American Reform Judaism and his work on Biblical cantillation, he was also one of the most important … “Mt. Meron tunes,” as they became called following the studies of this repertoire by Andre Hajdu and Yaacov Mazor. … Edwin Seroussi, the Joyce Z. Greenberg Professor of Jewish Studies, in the winter of 2016 at the Department of Music of …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other Biblical texts in liturgical contexts—has attracted the … melodies or “modes” in the Eastern Ashkenazi tradition of Biblical cantillation; I will characterize each mode with a … 2006, Tenzer and Roeder 2011, and the journal Analytical Studies of World Music ) and as scholars of Jewish music …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… century Ashkenazi Mahzor at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy in St. Petersburg D 101 (F … the old-fashioned pentatonics with their reminiscences of Biblical chant. The “alternative” Eastern European melody of … on the High Holidays. The use of a prominent motif of Biblical chant as the final cadence of most Shofet versions …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… earthly topic, but do so with concealed and semi-overt Biblical references. The earliest appearance of Kikhlot … burst into watery tears. After comparing his host to the Biblical Moses (who had, according to the poet, issues with … appears to have been copied. In his Talmudic notes of his studies in Mainz over 1818-1820, a student named Leib …
The Titles of the Psalms - A Renewed Investigation of an Old Problem
… 9434 … Psalms … Titles … Psalm titles … Biblical studies … Musicology … Interdisciplinary research … The …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch directly upon the biblical story, while others refer to the traumatic memory … is a psalmodic chant to which verses from the biblical Book of Lamentations are sung during the Divine … “The Musical Vocabulary of Ashkenazic Hazanim .” In Studies in Biblical and Jewish Folklore . Ed. Raphael Patai …