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Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… by the Lebanese record label Baidaphon, the largest non-European record company active in the Middle East during the … the Nahda period and/or the liturgical practices of Middle Eastern Jews. While everyone from the Jewish side was … than mass media technology had in shaping a shared Middle Eastern geography of musical aesthetics, an historical …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… as the 1880s, America began exporting Yiddish songs back to Eastern Europe. Political tactics and pamphlets pioneered by the … was not, however, the only song by Edelstadt to migrate to Eastern Europe. In 1971, Dov Noy and Meir Noy edited a …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… and cultural aspects of Jewish existence in trans-alpine Europe and appear to explain the narrative’s major role in … rite ( minhag ’Ashkenaz ); we have not discovered any Eastern Ashkenazi ( minhag Polin and minhag Lita ) … whereas the left column is entitled Minhag Polen (i.e. Eastern Ashkenazi rite) and contains the piyyut ’Omnam ken …
Orality as Religious Ideal: The Music of East-European Jewish Prayer
… approximations of the original idea. … 9479 … Orality … Eastern Europe … Prayer … Jewish Prayer … Jewish … Jewish music … … music … Orality as Religious Ideal: The Music of East-European Jewish Prayer … יהודית פריגישי …
Between Tradition and Modernity
Between Tradition and Modernity: The High Holy Days Melodies of Minhag Ashkenaz…
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… and from there to France and to other parts of Christian Europe. Toward the end of his life he wandered to England, … for Motzei Shabbat. It is performed by Sephardic and Eastern (Oriental) Jews in a variety of melodies and textual … is sung only among Sephardic Jews and those from the Middle-Eastern communities. It is possible to distinguish between …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… folksongs added at the end of the seder is a late medieval European innovation that probably enhanced the process of … phrase, a common learning technique in religious schools in Eastern Europe. Our website includes two illuminating … passing tones, 2, 7flat and 7 that hints to a more Eastern European character. Baer Ma Nishtana, 1877 Close …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… source apparently moved eastwards, as it contains many Eastern Ashkenazi texts added later in its margins. Through … Ashkenazi liturgical poems such as Shofet kol ha’aretz to Eastern Europe. When Shofet kol ha’aretz appeared in printed prayers …
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 … context dependent. [6] Frigyesi’s work focuses on Eastern-European communities from before World War II. Rich …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… an old Yiddish melody that was reclaimed by Hebrewists in Europe or Palestine. Further exploration has proven that … 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 …