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Haggai Ben-Shammai
… and great-grandchildren. Ben-Shammai studied at the Hebrew University in the departments of Arabic Language and Literature, history of the Islamic countries … Professor Emeritus of Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University. He has served as co-director of the …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… Yemen Shofet kol ha’aretz belongs to the medieval poetic Hebrew genre called pizmon that is characterized by a … the present-day availability of medieval manuscripts of Hebrew liturgical orders allow for a fundamental revision of … The melody itself is not based on a “universal musical language” (Avenary’s term) like pentatonics, but uses a …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Friedman’s compositional corpus includes music for the Hebrew liturgy, English translations and interpretations of … octave leap at the opening of a melody—appears in modern Hebrew compositions in which the singing subject appeals … 1990s and signals the entrance of this globalized musical language into liberal American synagogues. By bringing this …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… Ashkenazi communities, a paraphrase in Yiddish followed the Hebrew text phrase by phrase, a common learning technique in … W. Binder, Seder Melodies: The Hagaddah Set to Music: in Hebrew and English for the Religious School, Congregational … since then in at least eight editions in several different languages. Goldfarb’s version was reproduced …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of Rabbi … the relations and differences between the Moroccan Arab and Hebrew traditions of Andalusian music, and by his profound knowledge of the Hebrew language and the hermeneutics of sacred poetry. Above all, …
A.Z. Idelsohn and the Study of the Traditional Pronunciations of Hebrew (Hebrew)
… A.Z. … Idelsohn … Abraham Zvi Idelsohn … Pronunciation (of Hebrew) … Hebrew language … A.Z. Idelsohn and the Study of the …
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 … generation after generation of Jews in various vernacular languages, in both oral and written forms (Spiegel …
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. … the Arbeter Ring’s music directors. Probably the innocent language of the song and its catchy melody led to its …
Moshe Attias
… to Maghrebi Arabic, with a Meknesi accent, as the main language of communication. This very remarkable feature demonstrates his resistance to the Hebrew-centered ethos of the Zionist movement and the … culture that emerged from it. Even when he recorded in Hebrew, as he did, the language was profusely peppered with …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… Istanbul. Here we encounter our song as a piyyut , with a Hebrew text, titled “Adonay hu elohenu” (The Lord is our God). It is fair to note that this Hebrew title is identical in meaning to the Judeo-Spanish … but are addressed by Seroussi in his forthcoming Spanish-language article which illuminate theories regarding the …