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Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… personality, which bridged Arab-Muslim and Arab-Jewish cultures without unnecessary clichés. The recognition of his …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… is essentially comprised of a few hundred vital years of cultural life, tragically bookended by the expulsion from … to the Great Fire, Saloniki stood as a major hub of Jewish cultural activity. Though some Jews had lived in … population influx, Saloniki was transformed into a multicultural city and commercial hub with a Jewish majority, …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… line of verses, by way of double repitition. It is difficult to construct meanings of words in the melody because of …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… new tunes, composed in the spirit of the new Hebrew musical culture, had a lively metric character calling for … circles as well. Eventually, 20 th century Zionist culture adopted the seder as a seminal communal event …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises … and had embraced the music aesthetics of the surrounding culture. The lyric quality of the tune (Avenary’s term here …
Haggai Ben-Shammai
… of the world’s leading scholars of Karaism and Judeo-Arabic culture. His interests include also Judaeo-Arabic Bible … as co-director of the Center for the Study of Judaeo-Arabic Culture and Literature (Ben-Zvi Institute, since 1995); … in the East, the Center for the Study of Judaeo-Arabic Culture and Literature and the Friedberg Geniza Project. …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… musical traditions for the te’amim is a blessing, one to be cultivated rather than eliminated. That multiplicity goes … accepted in most communities, as are legitimate traditional cultural variations” (2002, 515). [30] Jacobson welcomes … cantillation has co-existed with tonality in European culture since 1600. Ne’eman observes that melodic variants …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… and European Zionism, mid-century Yiddish secular culture, the contemporary klezmer scene, and even into … at them as relics of an embryonic period in Jewish/Zionist cultural development. Binder’s project is as much about … from a seminar on modern Hebrew song in American Jewish culture conducted by Dr. Edwin Seroussi, the Joyce Z. …
Yonatan Malin
… Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. Before joining the faculty at CU Boulder, Malin was Associate Professor at …
Vantsef (LKT)
… They also requested the ‘vantsef’ dance whose name was difficult to pronounce.” [Turun, Carpathian Mountains, pre-World …