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The Priestly Blessing in the Ashkenazi Synagogue: Ritual and Chant
… mystery and awe. The feeling of other-worldliness is greatly enhanced by the ancient chants and melodies that …
Aristophanes’ Phrynichos and the Orientalizing Musical Pattern
… anti-Persian obsessions has been overcome, to a great extent, by the recent investigation of the αβpoσυvη — …
Between Tradition and Modernity
… this compendium, even though not complete since its greater part only covers the High Holy Day services, …
Bernardo Feuer
… 1960 and 1970, he directed the liturgical choir of the Great Israelite Temple on Paso Street, during which time …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… teacher and a research partner, and a figure that inspired great admiration and respect. Extreme humbleness …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… day, in the afternoon), was written in the aftermath of the Great Fire of Saloniki, which occurred on August 18, 1917. Especially destructive in scale, the fire came as a great blow to the Jewish community living in Saloniki at the … Nazis (1943). For over four-hundred years leading up to the Great Fire, Saloniki stood as a major hub of Jewish cultural …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… out in an acrostic; the poem was formerly attributed to the great Spanish-Jewish poet Solomon ibn Gabirol (1020-1057). … . The title of this poem reads “On Moshe Ha-kilai who ate a great number of bugs and Ibn Gabirol,” an obvious reference …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… to Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra, considered onle of the last great poets of the Spanish 'Golden Age' of Hebrew poetry. … this period there were wars and vicissitudes in Spain that greatly affected the Jewish communities there. In 1140 Ibn …
Haggai Ben-Shammai
… Haggai and Bitya have four children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Ben-Shammai studied at the Hebrew …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… the correlation between melody and text structures in greater detail. The principle of recursive dichotomy, which … of the text in this verse: once the city [of Jerusalem] was great and abundant, now it is lonely and abandoned. The … Haftarah Chanting . New York: Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York. …