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Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… of a lover who looks above to the moon and the evening sky, singing of the pains of unrequited love. From online blogs … 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: …
Nitzan Hen Razael
… in Jerusalem and then in the high school adjacent to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In the IDF, Razael served as … the years 2005-2009, he established and led a group for singing piyyutim under the Kehilot Sharot organization. In …
Hisqil Qassab
… century. He was the title of pioneer of neoclassical singing in Maqam, and he was almost one of the most … in Israel in 1969.” For the full biography click here (Hebrew). Click here for the recordings of Hisqil Qassab on …
Abraham Salman
… A short excerpt of a film about Abraham Salman (in Hebrew). Saltana . A complete CD of Abraham Salman's … distinguished religious singers of Israel, Moshe Havusha, singing a muwashshah. Literature Shohat, Ella. (2008). “The …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… has been largely, if not exclusively, dominated by the singing of paraliturgical Hebrew (and at times Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic) poetry. This … from Gaon’s repertoire, “Morenica” (“Sheḥarḥoret” in its Hebrew version also by Gaon), in Moroccan synagogues in …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… 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 … R. Hayyim Meir Hager (1888–1972), instituted the custom of singing [it] at the Friday night Tish during the dance …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of … be remembered for her extraordinary memory and her pleasant singing voice, which can be heard throughout the vast … Jews . Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2014. (In Hebrew) Weich-Shahak, Susana. Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… of Jacobson’s article, one sees how the allure of Rossi’s Hebrew compositions to modern scholars impacts the … spiritual Christian music of his time. Is the practice of singing the three verses of Psalm 80 unique to Italy? The … [2] I am thankful to Prof. Shulamit Elitzur from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for enlightening me about …
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 … Zion”; Zemereshet #154). The performer apparently started singing Jabotinsky’s song but confused it with “Se’u tziona” …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… of spiritual reality in the late Sephardic piyyut ,' [In Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the … Figure 2. 'Bore 'ad ana,' Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew Poetry , Israel Davidson As shown above in the list … stanzas he sings. Hocha was blind from childhood, so he was singing from memory. However, his musical renditions of …