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Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardi Melodies of Qinot for the Ninth of Av
… particular musical richness are the qinot of the Sephardi communities of the Western Hemisphere. Perhaps the intense attachment of the founding fathers of these communities, the conversos from Spain and Portugal, to …
The Priestly Blessing in the Ashkenazi Synagogue: Ritual and Chant
… from under the prayer shawls of the kohanim . All Jewish communities from Yemen to Lithuania cherish special chants …
Sounds from under the Ashes: The Music of Cults and Mysteries in the Ancient Vesuvian Land
… In the Roman period, the communities inhabiting the land dominated by the threatening … with the themes and the customs of the Italic and Etruscan communities. In the year 79 CE the volcano erupted, sealing …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… far greater than that accorded to it by other Jewish communities (Weinberger 1998, 5–6, 184; Fraenkel, Gross, and … chants used for texts retelling the ‘Akedah in some Jewish communities (Levi 1963). Levi’s brief discussion of the … earliest piyyut portraying the persecution of the Jewish communities in the Rhineland in 1096. It is also considered …
Moshe Attias
… international recognition and popularity among the various communities in Israel, Mwijo remained deeply anchored in the …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… Eloheinu” was circulating within the Italian Sephardic communities as early as the beginning of the 18th century, … between Hebrew and Judeo-Spanish texts among the Sephardic communities of Northern Italy. The Hebrew song in Seder … has worked its way through a diverse array of Sephardic communities, each singing a version that is slightly …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common source, Birnbaum … in written music sources of historical European Jewish communities. Driven by a nationalist-oriented agenda to … comprehensive search for manuscripts from decimated Jewish communities. Also trained as a librarian and paleographer, …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… fit in here? If historical records had allowed the Jewish communities that emigrated from countries such as Syria, … Aleppian ḥazzanim on the liturgical styles of the Sephardic communities in Jerusalem (1997), couched his belief in … one of the founders of the “ Kehillot Sharot [Singing Communities]”, a nation-wide project that brings together …
Nili Belkind
… reflects and forms identities, and in the process, shapes communities. Author has "followed the conflict" by … projects Nili always seeks to contribute to the artists and communities that have brought her into their fold. … …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… music, most particularly, the music of religious and ethnic communities in British Palestine. In the footsteps of Robert … and non-religious music of the non-European Jewish communities whose members relocated to Israel after 1948. …