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17. Uṭayavan Aruḷālĕ (Song for the Dedication of a Torah Scroll)
… prases the Torah which was accepted on Mount Sinai with prayer, singing and dancing, and also the new scroll which … … Cochin … Jerusalem … AMTI 0403 … Oh, Lovely Parrot! - Jewish Women's Songs from Kerala … Cochin … Communities … … … Immigrants … Immigration … India … Indian Jewery … Jewish communities … Languages … Women … Women singing … …
16. Nalla Karinkallu (Tekkumbhgam-Ernakulam Paḷḷi Song)
… Synagogue in Ernakulam. The entire song is structured as a prayer, with the first verse and chorus requesting God to … pure gold, As if itself built from the purest of gold, The Jewish paḷḷi is made pure in its golden essence. Of golden … … Cochin … Jerusalem … AMTI 0403 … Oh, Lovely Parrot! - Jewish Women's Songs from Kerala … Cochin … Communities … …
14. Yĕṟuśalāyinnu Vannāno (The Song of Evaray)
… Palur, a town in Kerala where there was once an ancient Jewish community. Welcomed on his arrival in another place, … God's help, the paḷḷi rose up. Rabbi Avaroh recited the prayers, Wise Evarayi explained the scripture, And all who … … Cochin … Jerusalem … AMTI 0403 … Oh, Lovely Parrot! - Jewish Women's Songs from Kerala … Cochin … Communities … …
Ezra Barnea
… surrounded his neighborhood, he became acquainted with the prayer customs of different ethnic groups. He also learned … for Religious Music, renamed “ Renanot – Institute for Jewish Music” in Jerusalem, an institution dedicated to the preservation of the Jewish musical heritage and its dissemination. He engaged in …
Yaakov Huri
… as rabbi. Huri belonged to the Zionist sector of the Jewish community. This sector, unlike the yeshivah students that were supported by the Jewish community, worked during the day for their … that there were certain situations in which he would lead prayers in one synagogue, and then walk to another one to …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is … is highlighted: Textless songs have probably been common in Jewish life for a long time. This could be connected with … made fun of the ecstatic movements of the Hasidim during prayer, their feasts, etc. We never hear, however, the …
5. Mi-Pi El (De Boca del Dio)
… This practice was preserved and promoted in Sephardic prayer books by Rabbi Haim Yosef David Azulay (1724-1806). … of Simhat Torah. Despite its enormous diffusion throughout Jewish communities and its appearance in countless printed and handwritten prayer books, the earliest versions are relatively modern. …
1. Oh Lovely Parrot!
… payinkiḷi —literally translated as a “green parrot,” and in Jewish Malayalam an epithet for a very beautiful woman— … and two others (songs 2 and 14) points to a tradition of Jewish roots in what is now the small town of Palayur, as … (signifying the minyan or quorum of ten required for Jewish prayer) apparently survived, but the others “quarreled …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… The Jewish liturgy was never a sealed and unified corpus. Its … inserted before the opening of the formal public prayer starting with the cry “Barekhu et Adonai hamevorakh” … tunes differ to a great extent from those of all other Jewish communities. They contain elements of original Jewish …
Flory Jagoda
… who sang Sephardic songs and recited traditional prayers. Flory escaped from Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia but … and honor Flory's life and career. Full biography at the Jewish Women's Archive: Bortnick, Rachel Amado and Betty … Jagoda Murphy. "Flory Jagoda." Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. 23 June 2021. Jewish Women's Archive. (Viewed …