… is found in contemporary sources and among Hebrew speaking Hassidim, literally refers to meditational tunes which 'function as means to help the Hassid enter into a meditative state of union with God [1] .' These niggunim are characterized by slow tempi expressing serious, meditational, …

…   Example 1 Chassidische Melodie Musikdruck.pdf Taken from der Sammlung … die Juedische Schule und Familie . St. Petersburg: Gesselschaft fuer Juedische Volksmusik, 1912, p. 6. In this … Klaenge (Beilage zum israelitischen Familienblatt [Hamburg]), Nr. 43/23 (Mai 1929), p. 344, nr. 21. Example 7 …

…  (LKT). The LKT compiles a wide array of source materials that shed light on the historical and contemporary state of … a number of citations from primary and secondary sources that include or refers to the term in question. It also … elegiac mood, in the manner of Wallachian folk music. The hazanim used to sing a Wulach , for example, for the verse …

… and lineages of transmission crystallized into several minhagim (“customs” or “traditions”) once the printing press … remain to be investigated, were established in different minhag im , some of them only in one.   Such a passage is a … the Three Festivals and High Holidays, according to the minhag Italiani , also known as minhag Bnei Roma or minhag  …

… Life Mordekhai Zeira was born in Kiev, Russia, in 1905. Although he was … musical family, his musical education consisted mostly of a handful of piano lessons, which he received as a reward for … Zeira listened to classical music in both Operas that he went to with his mother, and through his sister's …

… Mordekhai (Mordecai; Mordkhe) Hershman was born in 1888 in … died in New York City on January 30, 1941. Several sources have misprinted the name of his town of birth, … (supposedly in the Volyn Governorate; no town of that name was identified there) in Zaludkowski (1930: 274); …

… If you have ever searched for Hatikvah online, you were surely exposed to a barrage of factual and fictional information that, in the Internet Age, circulates virally in diverse …

… Post-vernacular Era This study aims to trace the unique characteristics of a type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European landscape: Hasidic tish-nigunim. Nigunim (Yiddish nign , from the Hebrew niggun —melody) are chants, some with words but most without, historically …

… reprimanded Gazit in highbrow modern Hebrew by saying that “the Hebrew language is still holding on my lips”. … recording of ‘Karev yom,’ one of the many Hebrew songs that Bikel performed, recorded and was instrumental in … recorded early by Hanna Aharoni with the Emanuel Zamir Ensemble) Shir Habokrim (Yaacov Orland, Mordecai …