(98 results found)
Mordechai Breuer
… and holidays. In Israel, Breuer taught the history of Jewish music at the conservatory. In the 1950s, he taught at … calendar', including liturgical and para-liturgical music, customs, and traditions, as were customary in the community … was made systematically according to topics in the Jewish calendar as follows: introduction and personal …
Arvit
… Arvit is the last of the three daily services of the Jewish liturgy, along with Sha h arit and Min h a which are … all seven blessings. It is followed by Kaddish. Different customs for reciting the Arvit service The beginning of the … nusa h , the Arvit service begins with “Hu rahum.” Many Jewish communities originating in Islamic countries begin …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… Song”. For a start, it represents two of the four genres (Jewish, Irish, Italian, and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take … heart of what became Berlin’s true genius and of what was Jewish – or at least ‘Jew-ish’ – about Berlin’s life and … already too many Jews involved in it. We are told that the Jewish moguls of Hollywood promoted a ‘white-picket-fence’ …
Yehuda Ratzaby
… and was awarded a doctorate. From 1964, he taught Arabic-Jewish literature and medieval Hebrew literature at Bar-Ilan …
Kedusha
… verses. Some of the additions were adopted by all of the Jewish communities, while some only by a few. Although the … century CE. During that period, in the Byzantine Empire, Jewish communities were persecuted and were prohibited to …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… in Hebrew) for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, a fast day in Jewish tradition marking the breach of Jerusalem’s … this date was associated with other catastrophes in Jewish history. In spite of its prominence in Jewish historical memory, this fast day has not generated …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… serve as hazzan (cantor) of the new, flourishing Portuguese Jewish community. In 1628, he published in his adopted city … early dissemination in Western Sephardic and North African Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew … the inheritance of a unique creative personality of the Jewish twentieth century who survived adversity against all …
Had Gadya
… of intensive study by a distinguished gallery of modern Jewish and non-Jewish scholars since the early nineteenth-century, starting … in Israel and among the nations,” Assufot: Annual of Jewish Studies 2 (5748[1988]), 201-226 (in Hebrew). This …
The Western Sephardi Liturgical Tradition as Sung by Abraham Lopes Cardoso
… by Abraham Lopes Cardozo. Originally from the Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam, serving the Portuguese … … 1 … 7 … 38939 … 1 CD + booklet … Jerusalem … New York … Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of …
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. … of transmission crystallized into several minhagim (“customs” or “traditions”) once the printing press started to … verses from diverse psalms are a widespread phenomenon in Jewish liturgy, the text under discussion is unique in that …