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Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… Moroccan, German, Eastern European and Hassidic Jewish communities in Palestine and throughout the Diaspora. This …

Society for Jewish Folk Music
… theater and music circles of New York and other Jewish communities of the period. His arrangements lack the …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… I knew, the same one that is sung today in all the Jewish communities. At the beginning, neither the song nor the … found in the liturgical repertory of the Western Sephardic communities. It is the melody of the piyyut Lekh le-shalom … liturgical melodies originated in the Spanish-Portuguese communities of Venice and Livorno and migrated from there …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… and vicissitudes in Spain that greatly affected the Jewish communities there. In 1140 Ibn Ezra immigrated to Italy, and … only among Sephardic Jews and those from the Middle-Eastern communities. It is possible to distinguish between two … of modern and old Hebrew songs intended for Israeli singing communities. [15] Its inclusion in such a book attests to …

Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… are authoritative for other reasons, within individual communities and denominations. [26] … tension and aligned with practice. In my experience, some communities aim for uniformity of practice; this is … case when a new group of readers are being trained. Other communities welcome readers with differing melodies. [29] …