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“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies

… (the dream that Joseph solved). As during the drought in Egypt, the people of Israel once again look forward to …

The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music

… Sea of Reeds the son of Amram [Moses] dried And made the Egyptian Nile stink. Who was this man Moses who Drew water …

Paradigms of Arabic Modes in the Genizah Fragment Cambridge T.S. N.S. 90,4

… 9433 … Medieval … Middle Ages … Cairo Genizah … Geniza … Egypt … Jewish History … Manuscripts … Modes … Arabic modes …

Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited

… been agents of change, exchanging ideas with visiting Egyptian and Iranian musicians and introducing these ideas …

In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover

… titled in the original “Yetsiyes mitsraym” (“Exit from Egypt”; see illustration below). Edelstadt’s songs were … land’s Jewish working masses, modern Yiddish, far away from Egypt, became a Hebrew song of Zionist overtones performed on Egyptian land occupied at that time by the national Jewish …

Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot

… legends pertaining to his life, including the Exodus from Egypt, the receiving of the Ten Commandments, and the …

Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record

… the emergence of a new school, which, having its roots in Egypt, saw the revival of classical musical forms and genres … recorded with Baidaphon (others included, for example, the Egyptian vocalist and composer Zaki Mourad [9] , his brother … and shape a “classical”, transregional (albeit heavily Egyptian-influenced) musical aesthetic, which can be …