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The Priestly Blessing in the Ashkenazi Synagogue: Ritual and Chant
… come from under the prayer shawls of the kohanim . All Jewish communities from Yemen to Lithuania cherish special chants …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Yiẓḥak , or ‘Akedah ) has assumed an important function in Jewish religion and culture since Antiquity. This renowned narrative describes how the first Jewish family (Abraham, Sarah and Isaac) came close to … far greater than that accorded to it by other Jewish communities (Weinberger 1998, 5–6, 184; Fraenkel, Gross, and …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the … and died on April 30, 2020. He came, as do many Moroccan Jewish performing artists and composers, from a family of … international recognition and popularity among the various communities in Israel, Mwijo remained deeply anchored in the …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s … Eloheinu” was circulating within the Italian Sephardic communities as early as the beginning of the 18th century, … between Hebrew and Judeo-Spanish texts among the Sephardic communities of Northern Italy. The Hebrew song in Seder …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common source, Birnbaum … proposed that musical diversity is the natural state of Jewish culture. Lidarti’s setting was a case exemplifying …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long … as elsewhere in the Arab world during the Nahda era, Jewish musicians played an active role in the performance … fit in here? If historical records had allowed the Jewish communities that emigrated from countries such as Syria, …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… music, most particularly, the music of religious and ethnic communities in British Palestine. In the footsteps of Robert … para-liturgical and non-religious music of the non-European Jewish communities whose members relocated to Israel after … to the preservation and research of these distinctive Jewish musical repertoires. Her activities led to the …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… for the Ninth of Av among the Sephardic and Oriental Jewish communities. The identity of the author is unknown, except … Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim Beinart on the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the … Melngailis collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics makes public a forgotten … devoted attention to the collection of songs from minority communities which inhabited Latvia, namely, Jews, Roma, …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… 49 … 58 … 710 … Jewish liturgy evolved in a multidirectional process. … verses from diverse psalms are a widespread phenomenon in Jewish liturgy, the text under discussion is unique in that … function, to another minhag , that of the Romaniote (Greek) communities . We should notice that other verses of …