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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Idelsohn Project
… physiognomy of Jewish Orientalism and its ties to early Arab- Jewish sociopolitical and cultural encounters in Palestine during the late Ottoman period and the early years of the British Mandate; the transnational … Jewish intellectual life, suspended between Europe and the Middle East; and the understudied topic of nationalist …
El lifne [sic] har Galil (shir hatunah)
… of Galil (wedding song). Bakashot hashkama be-parsit . Early morning prayers in Persian language. Yigdal Elohim hai … piece in Persian. Bakkashot are piyyutim (poems) recited early in the morning prior to the opening of the formal … piece is Yigdal Elohim hai ve-yishtabah . In Sephardic and Middle Eastern traditions this anthem is sung at the end of …
Piris Eliyahu
… Eliyahu was born in Daghestan. He spent his childhood and early adult years there, during which he conducted … of the Bar-Ilan university, and taught in the Centre for Middle Eastern Classical Music in Musrara neighborhood, … composer and musicologist … Composer … Eastern Caucasus … Dagestan … Mountain Jews … Musician … Ethnomusicology … Piris …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… it across the Baltic region, urban Germany, Ottoman and early British Palestine, Lithuanian Jewish South Africa, and … eldest child. This document, written on a few pages detached from a pink paper pad, offers the reader a … to the San Remo conference that decided the fate of the Middle East after World War I. It is uncertain where the …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… population of Comtat-Venaissin. During the whole of the Middle Ages and up to the Revolution of 1789 they lived peacefully … Lyceum. I suppose it was destined that we should meet. As early as the thirteenth century, our surnames appear …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… Jewish modes intermingled with French chants of the Middle Ages. Peculiarly enough, these Jews accepted the German … Jews from Algeria and Morocco to Southern France since the early nineteenth century. As we shall see, the Psalm verses …