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Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… Internet Age, circulates virally in diverse variants, dosages and combinations ad nauseam . [1] These writings and … not derive from Smetana nor from a Sephardic prayer. And an early Zionist pioneer did not compose it spontaneously. Nor … and commercial recordings throughout the European, Middle Eastern and American Jewish diasporas, was a crucial …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… sections. The text draws from poetic formulae common in early Zionist Hebrew poetry. In Zionist songbooks and … to record the melodies associated with the early stages of the rebuilding of our homeland, so that we, in the … for such a Yiddish song. The modality is reminiscent of Middle-Eastern songs, such as the baladi songs of Syrian and …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… of Isaiah 40:27 with etnaḥta at the end and katon in the middle. The brackets show that the level-two katon phrase … in Esther trope; the two pitch centers are not as clearly established and the switch is not as stark. Example 9 … in the reading of individuals as they present Biblical passages with the system of cantillation. …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… elements of a learning session (casuistry of Oral Law passages and other pedagogical texts) with liturgical ones … The traditional Ashkenazi learning tune Already in the late Middle Ages Rabbi Jacob ben Moses ha-Levi Moellin … (New York: Bloch Pub. Co, 1925). In Europe during the early 20 th century, we should mention the presence of this …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …