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Jewish Singing and Boxing in Georgian England
… By their very nature, catalogues and inventories of manuscripts are factual and succinct, composed of dry lists … of actually holding and studying a centuries-old original manuscript, contrary to their uninviting appearance, such … What Israel Adler has provided us with in Hebrew Notated Manuscript Sources - RISM (Adler 1989) is a …
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 … 2008). A Yiddish prose adaptation of the story appears in a manuscript dating from 1511 , [11] the story is mentioned …
Moshe Attias
… from University of Haifa he recorded many songs from these manuscripts that Chetrit transcribed for his research on … 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 … a collection of Hebrew and Judeo-Spanish songs found in a manuscript dated 1702 by Moshe Bekhar Hacohen, the hazzan of …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… 1899, the distinguished scholar, cantor, composer and avid manuscript collector Eduard Birnbaum of Königsberg published … . Birnbaum introduces in it the score of Kol haneshamah , a Hebrew piece by composer Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti … he knew via the copies in Birnbaum’s collection at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. Fast forward to the …
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 … printed version of the song’s poetic text can be found in a manuscript from the Cairo Genizah dating from approximately …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hacohen, NLI, Yc 197 … 714 … In his pioneer publication Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical … comprehensive method for addressing the musical aspects of Hebrew liturgical poetry from an evolutionary diachronic … ( Shirei qodesh le-rabbi Shlomo ibn Gabirol , according to manuscripts with commentaries, sources, versions, …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… In addition, Joseph Yahalom found 'Bore 'as ana' in a manuscript of qinot from Spain dated in 1481 ('Poetry as an … 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 …
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 … employed in handling the various aspects of Melngailis’s manuscript. The only unfortunate editorial decision was that …
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 … part of the poem, as attested to by most of the Genizah manuscripts containing it. [2] Halegua repeats twice these … [2] I am thankful to Prof. Shulamit Elitzur from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for enlightening me about …