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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 … of the study and there she would collect all of Father’s manuscripts. At that time, my grandfather, my father’s …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… text for easy online search and mobile viewing. Idelsohn's Hebrew and English biographies, written in the early 1930s, … in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared in Die Chasanim Welt 3, no. 15, (Sh’vat, … Jacobsohn, then head of the “Juedischer Verlag,” bought my manuscripts of “Sepher Hashirim,” and Bialik encouraged me …
‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… a rather secluded life. Almost all of his works remained in manuscripts (except for a few songs, as will be shown … – in an Italian volgare , that is, written in Hebrew characters and with many Hebrew loan words. The poem, which clearly dialogues with …
Sara Levi-Tanai
… A Life of Creation]. Tel Aviv: Resling, 2015. (in Hebrew) Toledano, Gila. " Sara Levi-Tanai ." Shalvi/Hyman … and the Inbal Dance Theater]. Tel Aviv: Resling, 2005. (in Hebrew) MA thesis on children's songs of Levy-Tanai: Kfir, … (in Hebrew) Songs, commercial and ethnographic recordings, manuscripts, photographs, and many other archival materials …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… all written in the Comtadin-Jewish dialect, a mixture of Hebrew and Provençal, which on occasion one still hears … of languages, published an anthology of poems in which Hebrew verses alternate with Provençal ones. [4] The poets … In Aix I found among some Jewish family papers the manuscript of a little story, "Arcanoth and Barcanoth", that …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… term translates literally as “permission” or “consent” the Hebrew word also resonates with privilege, i.e. the honor … unique. Its compositional principle is somehow similar to Hebrew psalmody, whereas a musical phrase consisting of two … publiques de France. Catalogues, Paris: Brepols, vol. V, manuscript 706, page 66. References quoted Granat, …
6. Coplas de Hanukkah: Dak Il Tas, Toma El Tas
… of the original song that we reproduce below based on the manuscript of the National Library of Israel, Yehuda … appears in this old song at the end of the first stanza, in Hebrew: lehadlik ner shel Hanukkah (“light a Hanukkah … back perhaps to the seventeenth century, as the Ottoman Hebrew poet Avtalyion composed a Hanukkah piyyut based on …
5. Mi-Pi El (De Boca del Dio)
… are relatively modern. The earliest one appears in a manuscript entitled Sefer Pizmonim (Venice, 1734) in the … that apparently were concieved close to the original Hebrew song. Hereby is the refrain of the song in David … (who receives the Torah from Moses). The song uses the Hebrew alphabet, providing adjectives for these four …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… Hasidic tish-nigunim. Nigunim (Yiddish nign , from the Hebrew niggun —melody) are chants, some with words but most … origin, klezmer tunes, and melodies of Yiddish popular and Hebrew quasi-Hasidic songs that were instrumentally … in the extant documentation of the nigunim in prints and manuscripts. The decision not to mention attributions to …
A Flowering Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not just) for Tu BiShvat
… considering the availability of a wealth of versions in manuscript, printed and oral sources (for an exhaustive list … they all open with a stanza from a trilingual poem (Hebrew, Ladino and Turkish) whose last line, “Sobre todo es … the connection between El debate de las flores and sacred Hebrew poetry ( piyut ), not only because it appears almost …