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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… songs, it seems that the absence of a scholar familiar with Hebrew and Yiddish folk songs was detrimental to this … in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, Russian, Hebrew and Yiddish) usually impede access for the general … About one generation later, the “ Lithuanian Polka ” melody became a folk dance among the pioneers in Palestine, …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… prayer books. This fourth verse is sung to a different melody but is apparently an integral part of the liturgical … of Jacobson’s article, one sees how the allure of Rossi’s Hebrew compositions to modern scholars impacts the … [2] I am thankful to Prof. Shulamit Elitzur from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for enlightening me about …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… African Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew song, which had developed starting in the sixteenth … a traditional pattern, coupled with the catchy, repetitive melody, ensured that this song would be received as a … literary genres in different languages, written and oral. A Hebrew song generates a popular saying combining Hebrew and …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… that were not heard previously. About one third of the melody (eleven out of thirty-four bars in the actual … notice the presence of fragments from nign 3 in the Zionist Hebrew repertoire consolidating in Palestine since the late … As Mazor has shown in his groundbreaking study, this new Hebrew repertoire, usually known as Shirei Eretz Israel …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… not exclusively, dominated by the singing of paraliturgical Hebrew (and at times Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic) poetry. This … by the cantor. The first part of this prayer is sung to the melody of the piyyut “Lindodkha, yedid naʿalah” by Israel … from Gaon’s repertoire, “Morenica” (“Sheḥarḥoret” in its Hebrew version also by Gaon), in Moroccan synagogues in …
Jeff Klepper
… “everything’s ok” but also “this voice is good enough” in Hebrew) and they still perform together to this day. One of … Rav” which he composed in 1974 and is still a popular melody in synagogues around the globe. He also co-edited the …
Shefa Gold
… its practices to Judaism. Gold combined the old practice of Hebrew chanting with ideas from Buddhism by using biblical … order to achieve a deeply spiritual experience. She teaches Hebrew chanting at Kol Zimra, a formal training program in … for the biblical words Ozi V'zimrat Yah, (from psalms). The melody begins in a very similar interval as the Hymn Amazing …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… to Iraqi music scholar Scheherezade Qassim Hassan, the melody is attributed to Sufi poet and composer Mullah Uthman … family from Bombay who sang this melody to the religious Hebrew text, “Ki eshmerah Shabbat,” a song intended for the … (1998) in collaboration with Uri Amram. This book includes Hebrew poems created through the process of contrafactum: …
Hin’ni Haaniyah Mimaas (Here I am, poor in worthy deeds)
… prayer of Hannah and the songs of Miriam and Devorah. The melody is written in the improvised-recitative style of … salient words and phrases of the prayer. Download Hebrew Lyrics … Text and Cantorial Recitative by Eliyahu …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… slower in tempo and perhaps closer to the original Turkish melody to which Abadi's text was set in comparison to the … the city is succinctly documented in an announcement in the Hebrew daily Aherouth (i.e. Ha-herut): Jerusalem, Guests – … and agent of the Society for Jewish [original says “Hebrew”] Culture and Ethnography. He was sent to our city on …