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Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… and commercial recordings throughout the European, Middle Eastern and American Jewish diasporas, was a crucial … soul still yearns, And onward, towards the confines of the East, An eye still gazes toward Zion. Our hope is not yet … source of inspiration of Hatikvah , looking a bit more eastwards, could have been Mazurek Dąbrowskiego , the famous …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… varies according to community. [3] For example in the south-eastern city of Rada'a, which once housed a considerable … is practiced by Jewish communities throughout the Middle East and North Africa and, as in the case of the Yemenite … in Arabic). At the bride's house, after the evening feast or light refreshments, the women and the share'a sing …
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
… of the JMRC specializing on Yiddish song and culture in Eastern Europe prepared a detailed scholarly essay on Leibu …
On musical connections between Jews and the neighboring peoples of Eastern and Western Europe
… of Massachusetts at Amherst. Program in Soviet and East European Studies).' … 1 … Amherst, MA … International … connections between Jews and the neighboring peoples of Eastern and Western Europe …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… It has appeared in many American Jewish songsters at least since Samuel E. Goldfarb’s Hamenagen [1] (1925). The …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… of Kozhnitz (Yiddish name of the town of Kozienice, in Eastern Central Poland). From there the niggun spread to …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… such a Yiddish song. The modality is reminiscent of Middle-Eastern songs, such as the baladi songs of Syrian and … incorporate elements of Yemenite songs in combination with Eastern European motives – making this a paramount example … backgrounds a synthetic fusion of the stereotyped Jewish “East” and “West,” which seems to collapse the distance …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a tradition that developed in … the world. There are six sets of melodies or “modes” in the Eastern Ashkenazi tradition of Biblical cantillation; I will … and speech that Judit Frigyesi describes in traditional Eastern Ashkenazi contexts. As Frigyesi observes, “Melody is …
Assaf Shelleg
… visiting Efroymson Scholar in the Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department at Washington …
Haggai Ben-Shammai
… Zvi Institute for the study of Jewish Communities in the East, the Center for the Study of Judaeo-Arabic Culture and …