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Brakha Tzefira
… was born in Jerusalem in 1910. Her father emmigrated from Yemen in 1887, and settled in the then Yemenite neighborhood of Nahalat Tsvi, in Jerusalem, and … attracted to the songs she heard. The synagogue played a central role in the lives of the families she grew up with, …
Abyadi Ana
… span over an entire day and in some communities such as Yemen even longer. The ceremony is accompanied by singing … [2] The Henna rituals are considered to be among the central events of the Jewish traditional wedding that spans … Hoffman-Halevy, “Stretch Forth Your Hand to the Henna”: Yemenite Music in Israel as Reflected in the Contemporary …
The Israeli Mediterranean Style
… the liturgical and para-liturgical musical traditions of Yemenite, Persian, and Moroccan Israeli Jews (i.e., the … composers of the time, almost all raised and educated in Central Europe, Eastern Europe, or Russia, developed the …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… and linguistic leaning of the early Zionist intellectuals Central and Eastern Europe. On the other hand, the … Le-Tziyyon (and all the young intelligentsia of Yehudah [central Israel in the terminology of the early Yishuv]) … Erich von Hornbostel arrived to a remote area of Southern Yemen where he recorded Yemenite Jews. Among the songs he …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… game commonly performed among the Jewish communities of central and southern Yemen. It is sung at the end of the bridal h enna ceremony … observance in each specific community. For example, in central Yemen cities such as the capital Sana'a the …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… – On to Our Land.” Binder indicates that this is a Yemenite melody and gives no attribution for the text. In … L’artzeinu was one of those few songs able to claim a central, canonical place in the Zionist musical pantheon. … loud and features ecstatic dances, songs and bonfires. A central musical figure at these Meron festivities for some …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… also, since at least the early eighteenth century, in the Yemenite rite during the morning services of all the Aseret … version Cantor David Tzuberi from Ramat Hasharon in central Israel reproduces in this recording a vivid … performance of Shofet kol ha’aretz in the style of central Yemen (especially the city of San’a). His rendition …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… where it is variously attributed to Sephardic or even Yemenite origins, as we shall see. Kikhlot yeini text, … of these performers (except for Eliran) were of Yemenite or Central Asian background and their energetic performances, … also appears in later Hebrew manuscripts of Persian and Central Asian origin. Ms. Jerusalem, The National Library of …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… the second day of Rosh Hashanah, because the story plays a central role in the liturgy of the Jewish New Year festival. … confessional prayers of various communities, such as the Yemenite, Persian and Babylonian Jews. It should be added, …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… songs about Jewish cowboys (Gottlieb 2004, 64). Also Yemenite-Ashkenazi intermarriages in Israel during the 1930s … of Hebrew songs by their scale degrees in relation to a central tone, defined the tetrachord featuring a minor … (description of archival fund: 6998. 1929–1935), the “Central Jewish schools organization, Private evening …