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The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… of Yaakov Huri in the Gerson-Kiwi Collection Iraqi-born cantor, Yaakov Huri was documented by Edith Gerson-Kiwi as …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… by Mr. Hocha, here are some remarks about this notable cantor. Nehemiah Hocha, cantor and scholar, was born in Zakho , in the Kurdish … Synagogue of the Aleppan Jews. For many years, Nehemiah was cantor and preacher at the Zekhut Avot Synagogue in …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… 1920s) and by Josef Spindel (1934). Another recording by cantor Ephraim Di-Zahav (at 1:24) was broadcast for many …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… of three verses from Psalm 80 which is recited by the cantor before the reading from the second Torah scroll … four versions of Elohim hashivenu , three from Italian cantors and one from a cantor from Salonika. Considering the time and material …
Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… … Hanukkah … Chanukkah … Piyyut … Ashkenaz … Ashkenazi cantorate … Hazzanut … Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… in Amsterdam around 1614, invited to serve as hazzan (cantor) of the new, flourishing Portuguese Jewish community. …
Moshe Cordova
… from Izmir, moved to Istanbul to become the ḥ azzan (cantor) of the Italian synagogue, a position he held until … in public, but taught Turkish ma ka m to a handful of cantors and appeared in selected radio broadcasts. Most notable among his disciples was the Jerusalem-born cantor Refael Yair Elnadav (1921-2012). Elnadav, half …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… only marginally so. Later in his life Smith would serve as cantor in a Black Jewish synagogue in New York. In an …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… conceptualization of an endangered “heritage” of solo cantorial music (at times framed within a Jewish national … primordial forms. Second, the enrichment of this “pure” cantorial heritage with new choral music, usually for four … these three components entailed the professionalization of cantors, choristers, choirmasters and instrumentalists and …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… the audio element. 5:55 Half qaddish, performed by the cantor. The first part of this prayer is sung to the melody … loud “sonic cloud.” The continuation of this qaddish by the cantor is performed in the customary fast non-metric … while the second verse, “Adonay hoshi’ah,” is sung by the cantor in a melismatic melody without clear beat that …