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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 … and omitting the character of Sarah altogether. Midrashic literature elaborates on the narrative at length, and it is …
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. … literatur un prese (Biographical Dictionary of Yiddish Literature and Press) Edelstadt’s definitive authorship of …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… to the writer and scholar of Spanish and Sephardic literature, Paloma Díaz Mas. Maftirim, “Adonay hu elohenu” … 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 …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… mobile phone is the copy of a 78rpm record of a pizmon , a Hebrew para-liturgical hymn called “ Yom Yom Odeh ” (Every … pizmonim ) according to these musical forms and/or combined Hebrew sacred and poetic texts with melodies from … sign of the jumping gazelle, a prominent symbol in Arabic literature which stood in contrast to the dog displayed on …
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 … a complete Hebrew publication devoted to Lithuanian folk literature appeared (Yardeni-Zakheim 1928). This volume …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… a peculiar feature discussed widely in the scholarly literature about this Psalm. Interestingly, a fourth verse … 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 …
Dan Deutsch
… postdoctoral fellow in the Musicology Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He earned his Ph.D. from … for Jewish Studies. His dissertation, Music as “Minor Literature”: Form and Syntax in Mahler’s Das Lied von der …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… is inaccurate. Indeed, there is a considerable body of literature regarding these collections, much of it published … stage, the project consisted of the full bilingual (English/Hebrew characters) computerization of the original … Aleph cataloging system and in the Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew languages, engaged in this project from 1996 to 1999. …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… klita ), where new Jewish immigrants are housed, taught Hebrew, supported in their first steps in the host society … community (the priests— qessotch in Amharic, qessim in the Hebrew adaptation), in effect dismantling the qessim ’s … 2 outlines and critiques the then-available (rather scant) literature in English on traditional Ethiopian music of the …
Abraham Salman
… A short excerpt of a film about Abraham Salman (in Hebrew). Saltana . A complete CD of Abraham Salman's … singers of Israel, Moshe Habousha, singing a muwashshah. Literature Shohat, Ella. (2008). “The Buena Vista Baghdad …