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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 … of the Binding of Isaac and was also used for additional songs in Hebrew and Yiddish, the content of which relates to …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… Studying songs for Passover offers us a rich field of inquiry into … 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. …
Moshe Attias
… that as a token of gratitude, Ben Haroush left him his songbooks, which had also been handed down to him. The … 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 …
Yonatan Turgeman
… PhD candidate in the Hebrew University Musicology Department, a fellow of the PhD … musician ('Avodot Afar'). His dissertation, 'The Science of Song in 'Pre-Academic' Israeli Musicology and the Problem of … is Dead: A Theory & Short History of Everyday Songs in Hebrew', was published in 2017 (Hakibbutz Hameuchad). … …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… Our song of the month concerns a Sephardic song commonly sung on … 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 …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… . 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 … arranged as a mini-cantata. We titled this cantata “Song for the Inauguration of the Portuguese Synagogue” …
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 pre-existing popular songs, a practice with roots in the sixteenth century that …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… 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 … structure [that] gives it the stamp of the common European song.” Melody emerges in this case from the poetic form and …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Hannover, Germany) and the Jewish Music Research Centre (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel). It was launched in … There he founded the Archive for Oriental Music at the Hebrew University. Edith Gerson-Kiwi joined him, working as … recorded items (each one comprising several units, such as songs and dialogues), which, although already digitized and …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… 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 … and North African versions in the article entitled “Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardic Melodies …