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Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… think. It does not derive from Smetana nor from a Sephardic prayer. And an early Zionist pioneer did not compose it … culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its practice at ceremonies of Jewish institutions, synagogues, schools and youth …
The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor: Musical Authority, Cultural Investment.
… round up their selves as communitarian Leaders of prayer. … 1 … 33936 … Bloomington … Indiana University Press … … 2009 … The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor: Musical Authority, Cultural Investment. …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… This article shows the crystallization of the prayer and singing style known as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which originated among the Jewish communities scattered throughout the Ottoman Empire … singing tradition found among the descendants of the Jewish communities exiled from Spain to the lands of Islam …
Vals (LKT)
… waltz meter, usually joyful. Waltzes were adopted from non-Jewish cultures by the Hasidic dynasties in Poland and … slower than their gentile counterpart. They are inserted in prayers such as Lekhah dodi for sabbath and Ki anu amekha … year was 1895... After the ceremony, as is customary in a Jewish wedding, the newlyweds were led into a private …
Terkish (LKT)
… you get the full reference. “ Bulgar was the American Jewish name for a dance genre which had come to epitomize … clarinet recorded in 1923...The title refers to a Hebrew prayer, possibly the source of the basic melody. He explores …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… 82-83. Example 8 Harry Coopersmith, editor, Little Books of Jewish Songs: Purim , Chicago: Board of Jewish Education, 1928. Example 9 Jacob Schoenberg, Shirei … is sung for the second section of the “Aleinu le-shabea h ” prayer at the end of the Sabbath morning services in …
Shemonah-esreh tants (LKT)
… “‘ Shemonah-esreh ’ Dance”.“Tzvi Fridhaber, scholar of Jewish dance, Haifa, writes to us:... I was approached by … all the motions of an extremely pious Jew during the Amidah prayer... The entire prayer was performed in mimicry and in rhythm.” [Brisk, …
Mazltov (LKT)
… If the bride is an orphan, the chazan now recites the prayer for the dead, ‘Mercifiul God, etc.,’ chanting it in … the definite form of this dance. It occurs frequently in Jewish dances, but as a phenomenon of an improvisational … part of the melody is from Meir Noy, as he heard it at Jewish weddings in Kolomeyke ( nign ‘mazl-tov’ )...” …
Volekh (LKT)
… but structured melody for listening, from the Romanian-Jewish repertoire. Often performed for guests at the banquet … ‘a Wallachian one,’ i.e., a dance or tune in Romanian-Jewish style.” Alpert 1996b, p. 59 . “Wulach, Woloch’l. A … Wulach , for example, for the verse Ana haShem in the Halel prayer, in contrast to the gay melodies that preceded.” …
Kosher-tants (LKT)
… the the name of this dance (‘kosher dance’) is originally Jewish, in all instances its music was typically foreign and … the bride is a kosher one’ is far from in good taste for Jewish modesty... In newer times the maskilim began to wage … If the bride is an orphan, the chazan now recites the prayer for the dead, ‘Mercifiul God, etc.,’ chanting it in …