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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis … 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 …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… identity. In fact, they comprise a refrain dividing the song into “strophes,” a peculiar feature discussed widely in … 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 …
Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… This Song of the Month for Hanukkah, in video lecture format, … on December 13, 2020 as part of a American Friends of the Hebrew University program, examines (with audio …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… 25 … Back in 2008 we dedicated our Song of the Month to the popular piyyut “Purim, Purim, Purim … African Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew song, which had developed starting in the sixteenth … literary genres in different languages, written and oral. A Hebrew song generates a popular saying combining Hebrew and …
Moshe Cordova
… its activities in Istanbul. The Mafṭirim performed Hebrew poetry set to Turkish classical music on the Sabbaths … became partners during these years, and recorded Ottoman Hebrew music commercially, some of which is presented in … piyyutim (religious poems), Shirei Israel be-Eretz Haqedem “Songs of Israel in the East,” together with Binyamin Bekhar …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of … life, she treasured within her memory the Judeo-Spanish songs of the North Moroccan Sephardic community, playing a … Jews . Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2014. (In Hebrew) Weich-Shahak, Susana. Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… the time the Librarian and Director of the Archive of Folk Song at the American Folklife Center of the Library of … 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 … interpreted) symbolic value. Chapter 5 discusses song texts, highlighting the centrality of “wax and gold”—a …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… in Beregovski’s Evreiskiie narodnyie pesni [Jewish Folk Songs] – the collection that Beregovski prepared for … notice the presence of fragments from nign 3 in the Zionist Hebrew repertoire consolidating in Palestine since the late … As Mazor has shown in his groundbreaking study, this new Hebrew repertoire, usually known as Shirei Eretz Israel …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… not exclusively, dominated by the singing of paraliturgical Hebrew (and at times Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic) poetry. This … as a choir with the rhythmic melody of the Arab song “Ya um al-‘abaya” (يا أم العباية) that was made famous … from Gaon’s repertoire, “Morenica” (“Sheḥarḥoret” in its Hebrew version also by Gaon), in Moroccan synagogues in …