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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 … are authoritative for other reasons, within individual communities and denominations. [26] …
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 … and an “alternative” tune (seven variants) preferred by the communities of the “Polish rite” (East of the Elbe and …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… performing the answers to the questions. In some Ashkenazi communities, a paraphrase in Yiddish followed the Hebrew … 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. …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… and vicissitudes in Spain that greatly affected the Jewish communities there. In 1140 Ibn Ezra immigrated to Italy, and … 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 …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… far greater than that accorded to it by other Jewish communities (Weinberger 1998, 5–6, 184; Fraenkel, Gross, and … 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 …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… 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 … fit in here? If historical records had allowed the Jewish communities that emigrated from countries such as Syria, …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… music, most particularly, the music of religious and ethnic communities in British Palestine. In the footsteps of Robert … and non-religious music of the non-European Jewish communities whose members relocated to Israel after 1948. … a transfer vividly transpires in her encounters with Middle Eastern Jews eternalized in her voluminous recordings. Edith …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… for the Ninth of Av among the Sephardic and Oriental Jewish communities. The identity of the author is unknown, except … Poetry , “Bore ‘ad ana” was mostly known in the Sephardic communities of Italy (Venice, Modena, Livorno) since the … - Ninth of Av … Qinot … Aleppo … Jerusalem … Piyyutim … Eastern Communities … Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… devoted attention to the collection of songs from minority communities which inhabited Latvia, namely, Jews, Roma, … a brief general history of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of the cultural life of Jews in Latvia, … According to Karnes, folk songs were collected in Eastern Europe since the 1850s, decades after this practice …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… that includes liturgical, para-liturgical and folk tunes of Eastern European and Babylonian Jewish communities. This release, available for streaming here, …