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El Jiwneh Hagalil (Lied der galilaischen Arbeiter) – God will Build the Galilee (Galilee Worker’s Song)
… An ancient piyut [liturgical song] transformed into a Zionist song, a complete study of El yivneh ha-galil would … a few are Shlomo Kogel with a male choir conducted by A. Z. Idelsohn, the Rina ve-Simcha choir conducted by Yossi Perez, …
Nahôn libbo is hujire – Whole-heartedly is the fearful believer
… עַם קְדוֹשִׁים נֶאֱמָן אוֹרָן הַזְרַח קוֹנִי The piyyut Nahôn libbo by Rabbi Nissim Mazliah of Baghdad (end of the eighteen century to beginning … Land. The inclusion of this Iraqi Jewish tune adapted from Idelsohn’s Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Music (1923b: 140, …
El [sic] shaare ratson le-hipateah
… El [sic] shaare ratson le-hipateah. (Mitpalet [mitefilat] Rosh … the story of the binding of Isaac. Performed by hazzan Halevi on July 15th, 1913. Cylinder # 619. 1:58 This is … of the Aleppo tradition. It was transcribed by Idelsohn (HOM IV, no. 246), probably from an individual …
Ani hatsal [sic] (Shir hatunah)
… Ani hatsal [sic] (Shir hatunah). I am rising (the wedding … two pieces. Ani hadal (I, the poor) is the first stanza of a poem by R. Shalom Shabazi (17th century). It is … after it was published with musical notation by Abraham Zvi Idelsohn in one of his earliest Hebrew articles titled …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, … A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern Jewish musical …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… This document, in the form of a synoptic table, incorporates three versions of Idelsohn’s autobiography. The original table is available in … Yoram Bitton, for his assistance in locating and digitizing this and other Idelsohn documents. We are also thankful …
1. El atán, el atado y el ara (Et sha'arei ratzon)
… Judeo-Spanish version of a liturgical poem ( piyyut ) of the ‘ … Hebrew text was composed by Yehudah Shmuel ibn Abbas (Fez, Morocco, c. 1100-Aleppo 1167). The poem is a moving … in the liturgical tradition of the Ottoman Sephardim (see Idelsohn 1923, p. 203, no. 240). The three versions from …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… The Jewish liturgy was never a sealed and unified corpus. Its continuity and … embellishments are petitions by the cantor or the shaliaḥ tzibbur (envoy of the congregation) inserted before the … attention was given to the content of this collection. Idelsohn ( 1929: 340-1 ) argued that it has “scientific …