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Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… Latvia (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He … was greatly impacted by the diversity of the Jewish community living in Palestine, and embarked on a massive project to record their …
Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880-1948
… 1995 … History … Israeli … Jehoash Hirshberg … Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880-1948 …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish communities. It consists of gatherings that occur … of the spiritual leaders of the congregation of Aleppo to Palestine, among them some of the outstanding cantors and payytanim of that community. The Aleppo community possessed a distinctive …
Im nin'alu
… of the four performances (2, 4) the traditional Yemenite Jewish lore is predominant; the other two (1, 3) exemplify … which was popularized by Bracha Zefira among the Jewish community of Palestine. It is sung in a responsorial manner: the soloist …
Mi-al har horev from the manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte
… manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte. The staff of the Jewish Music Research Centre hopes that the information … record in 1102. After his conversion, he traveled to Syria, Palestine, and Baghdad, where he learned to read and write … settled in Egypt, as a member of the thriving Jewish community situated there, and wrote his memoirs. The …
Ades Synagogue
… The Ades synagogue of the Aleppine Jewish community is located in the Nakhalat Zion neighborhood, in … the U.S., England, different Latin American countries, and Palestine, where most of these immigrants settled in …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… Borodin and Moussorgsky – was introduced to the Russian Jewish composer and music critic Joel Engel . Stasov … laid much of the foundation of modern art music written in Palestine and later Israel, as well as Israeli popular and … reputation preceded him, and he was greeted by the Jewish community as a giant. He died of fever after only two years …
Elohim Eshala
… exoticism” that captivated at the time the American Jewish audience. It is clear that the voices of Shoshana … of the first radio station of Mandatory British Palestine, called in Hebrew Kol Yerushalayim, the then young … has to be reminded that in the traditional Yemenite Jewish community the voice of a woman was technically forbidden for …
Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… Since the establishment of this community, the Karaites have maintained the basic principles … that period, other Karaite communities were founded across Palestine—in Ramleh and Tiberius—as well as in Egypt and … melody to the same text is performed by Avraham Kanai, a Jewish Karaite from Kazakhstan. The third melody originated …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… status it acquired exemplify the mechanisms through which Jewish modernity articulated itself on the basis of German … since at least 1894 as well as among the Jewish settlers in Palestine around the same time. It was also recorded … moving performance of the song by the cantor of the Jewish community in Basel, Sigmund Drujan-Bollag, took place during …