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Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… is nowadays one of the most popular songs in the Middle East. It is a muwwashshah, “girdle” song, a … of “Fog al Nakhal” that include alternating solo-chorus passages, Fakhri and his chorus sing simultaneously throughout … familiarity with a version of “Balini-b balwa” from as early as the 1920’s in Baghdad, it could be that this strand …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… the whole piece. This rhythmic-melodic peak appears in the middle of the third section out of four, creating a sort of … such as Beimel and Nadel, arranged and published in the pages of his journal. Winz's source for this nign is yet … Palestine (c. 1904-1914). Shmuel Shapira published it as early as 1948 in his seminal collection of songs associated …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… of the boy Berlin in the New York streets and docks, his early encounter of a Christmas tree at the dwelling of the … in his enthusiasm for his subject. At his outset, three pages of his preface are given to an exordium of the words … America, but individuals generally walk placidly down the middle of avenue of human experience within the limits …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… process. Differences between diverse local versions and lineages of transmission crystallized into several minhagim … מִשָּׁמַיִם וּרְאֵה; וּפְקֹד, גֶּפֶן זֹאת Clearly, the liturgist who set this passage noticed that verse … Harrán (ed.), Salamone Rossi – Opera Omnia , 13 vols. Middleton: American Institute of …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the … a survey of Jewish culture in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, Russian, Hebrew and Yiddish) usually impede … the Middle Ages for Jews and non-Jews alike,” while “in the early 1900s, Russian began gradually to overtake German” (p. …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… communities of Italy (Venice, Modena, Livorno) since the early seventeenth century, and not always in relation to the … the order of qinot of some Sephardic communities in the Middle East, such as Turkey, Syria and Jerusalem, as shown … Avot Synagogue in Jerusalem. He sang in a variety of languages and styles, sacred and secular in Neo-Aramaic (the …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… Odeh ” (Every day I am grateful), which was released in the early 1920s by the Lebanese record label Baidaphon, the largest non-European record company active in the Middle East during the phonograph era; [1] from here … the biography of “ Yom Yom Odeh ” that the following pages unfold is mediated by two main things : the famous …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… after generation of Jews in various vernacular languages, in both oral and written forms (Spiegel … as part of Parashat Vayera’ (Gen. XVIII:1 – XXII:24), early in the annual cycle of weekly portions, and on the … which was in practice in his days, originated in the Middle Ages: “the tune was customary in the fourteenth …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… own cultural traditions and speaking in their own languages.” 5 The Jews that were expelled from Spain and Portugal … other Sephardic traditions in the greater Mediterranean and Middle-Eastern world, became blended to a degree with local … on historical events and Jewish festivities of the yearly cycle. Susana Weich-Shahak defines the copla as a poem …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… (prayer books) , was formulated among the Babylonian sages during the Talmudic period. [2] Before the havdalah … published in many diverse locations and periods. Among the early printings that should be emphasized is “ Seder … is sung only among Sephardic Jews and those from the Middle-Eastern communities. It is possible to distinguish …