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A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jewish history, including among other things the revival of Hebrew in Ottoman Palestine, the creation of a new secular … himself left a rather short autobiography in English and Hebrew published towards the end of his life, when his … The sky would fill with beautiful colors and hues enchanting us with the glory of their loveliness. While we …
Admor
… Admor is an acronym in Hebrew for 'Adonenu, Morenu Ve-Rabenu' (our master, our … Rebe (in Yiddish), pronounced Rebi by H abad Hassidim in Hebrew. The Admor's leadership is different from the …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… was previously set to a variety of religious poems in Hebrew and Yiddish. It was also featured in many … In his article about the Hassidic niggun in the modern Hebrew song repertory, Yaacov Mazor mentions the same melody … from March 1933 shows the Zionist youth from the Tahkemoni Hebrew school in Munkács (part of Hungary prior to World War …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch directly upon … descendants. The story’s primary textual rendering in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis XXII:1–19) is somewhat brief, barely … a faithful preserver of the Alsatian Jewish community’s chanting heritage ( minhag Elsass ) sings the one recording …
La Gallarda matadora
… possible connections. Background Sepharad is the medieval Hebrew name for the Iberian Peninsula. The Sephardic Jews' … morphological and phonological features adopted from Hebrew and the local languages of the peoples that …
Mordekhai Hershman
… “a great concert at the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall“. The Hebrew press in British Palestine profusely advertised … by Leo Low. The Association of Devotees of Hazzanut and Hebrew Song in Tel Aviv ( Agudat hovevei hahazanut … in New York earlier in the year. Hershman and the Hebrew University In 1925, cantor Pinchas Jassinowski …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… both in the Yiddish-speaking world as well as in the modern Hebrew song repertoire in the Land of Israel. I am grateful … College Archive of Jewish Sound; Dr. Michael Lukin from the Hebrew University; Maestro Raymond Goldstein; and Prof. Edwin Seroussi from Hebrew University. David Edelstadt (1866–1892), one of the …