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The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… of the Land of Israel (1882-1946) . … Not all traditional Jewish holiday songs have survived in their original … Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini, which used to be performed in Jewish communities on Purim, especially in Germany, is one … musical strands which we have labeled “Zionist” and “Jewish” for convenience. I first addressed Kikhlot yeni in …
Arba Otiyot
… piyutim by other authors, which are related to the Moroccan Jewish tradition. The concept and performance of this … … 1 … 1 … 7 … 38843 … 64 … Jerusalem, Israel … Jewish Music Research Centre/The Ben-Zvi Institute/NaNa Disk … Contemporary Jewish Music … Sacred Hebrew Songs from the Saharan Maghreb …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… wars and vicissitudes in Spain that greatly affected the Jewish communities there. In 1140 Ibn Ezra immigrated to … poetry, research on Hebrew grammar, writings concerning Jewish thought (including philosophy and various scientific … (requests) for the success of household members. Like other Jewish liturgical rituals, the havdalah ceremony is …
Max Lempel
… Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1900 into an assimilated Jewish family. He studied at the Akademie für Musik und … of Music . Sources: Hirshberg, Jehoash. Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880-1948: A Social History . …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a performing stage, even though major … between the religious and mundane spheres in this domestic Jewish ritual. The music for different sections of the …
Avi Bar-Eitan
… and entrance examinations, and works as a researcher at the Jewish Music Research Center. Dr. Bar-Eitan is the head of …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. Friedman’s compositional … out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer camps. Jewish youth first brought her music …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … also attested in several medieval manuscripts of the Roman Jewish rite available at the IMHM catalogue. The persistence … early medieval customs were still reproduced among the Jewish intelligentsia in Eastern Europe in the early …
Haggai Ben-Shammai
… Judaeo-Arabic Bible exegesis and philosophy, history of Jewish communities in Islamic countries, and Islamic … for Judaeo-Arabic Studies (1997-2013); co-director of the Jewish Studies program at St. Petersburg State University … and academic management of projects aimed at enhancing Jewish studies in Russia, and in organizations active in …
Assaf Shelleg
… about Jews. Shelleg is the author of the award-winning book Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History … (2020-22), and is a music contributor for Haaretz. His book Jewish Music as Art Music is forthcoming with Cambridge …