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Jewish Liturgical Forms in the Falasha Liturgy? A Comparative Study
… religious practice, yet the relationship of their liturgy to normative Judaism remains underdetermined. This … in the direction of comparative studies. In any society, a Jewish influence may be manifested in certain aspects of cultural life and religious practice, but all Jewish traditions share basic liturgical forms. By defining …

A.Z. Idelsohn and the Study of the Traditional Pronunciations of Hebrew (Hebrew)
… for his recording and research of the music of the various Jewish ethnic groups, presented to the scholarly world in … Oriental Melodies (1914-1932). Through his work on the liturgy of the aforementioned groups, Idelsohn also became … occasions by members of the community and as read in the liturgy, especially aroused the interest of Idelsohn. He …

Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardi Melodies of Qinot for the Ninth of Av
… of qinot melodies for the Ninth of Av (the date on the Jewish calendar that commemorates the destruction of the … of the most ancient musical repositories in the Sephardi liturgy. Of particular musical richness are the qinot of … order of the four fasts.” … 9415 … Sephardi … Sephardic Jewish people … Western Sephardi tradition … Sephardi …
Between Tradition and Modernity
… times as well as of the entire Southern German liturgical Jewish tradition round out the 470 pages of this book, … major publications undertaken in the field of the Ashkenazi liturgy. We quote from the introduction to the book: … to Hazzan Maier Levi of Esslingen, at the historical Jewish Orphanage of Esslingen, November 10, 2019. From right …

A la recherche du Tonus Peregrinus dans la tradition musicale juive
… q î nah (lamentation) pour le deuil du 9 Av. … 9490 … Jewish music … Liturgy … Liturgical music … Jewish Liturgy … Christian liturgy … Hebrew cantillation … …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of … single-handedly maintained and kept alive the Moroccan Jewish singing tradition in Israel against all odds. He was … , an expert in the religious poetry sung as part of the liturgy, in paraliturgical events as well as in ceremonies …
The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer
… of Operation Moses when a significant proportion of the Jewish population of Ethiopia was flown from the Sudan to … in Jerusalem, Machon Meir, to familiarize them with general Jewish history and Orthodox religious law ( Halacha ) that … provides a comprehensive understanding of the Beta Israel liturgy, as it was performed in Ethiopia until the …
“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 … 2011, 29-35. [2] Naphtali Weider, The Formulation of Jewish Liturgy in the East and West. Vol. 1. Jerusalem, Yad Itzhak …
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 … compositional corpus includes music for the Hebrew liturgy, English translations and interpretations of …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… of the morning service for Rosh Hashanah in the Sephardic liturgy and appears also, since at least the early … 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 …