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Hanukkah Blessings
… Blessings while lighting the candles is a well-established Jewish family practice that is usually performed by the head of the household according to traditional patterns. Yet, when the lighting of the candles … the first two bars of the Maoz Tzur melody. Scholars of Jewish music from each generation, such as Eduard Birnbaum, …
Nehama Lifshitz
Nehama Lifshitz was born in Kaunas, Lithuania and immigrated to Israel in 1969. She was…
Gershom Sizomu
… In 2007 he published a CD with music from Abayudaya's tradition, called Sing For Joy: Abayudaya Jews~Uganda. Full … Neranena ( Come Let Us Sing for Joy to the Rock of Salvation): … Ugandan Jewry's spiritual leader … 0 … uganda … …
Romanza - Romance
… A unique genre in the Sephardic Jews musical tradition. A narrative poem, a ballad, originated in Medieval … in which one musical stanza is repeated, with slight variations, throughout the text. The themes of the Sephardic …
Bin Tavinu Liqnot Bina Ha'azinu
… of the greatest Hebrew poets in the period after the expulsion from Spain. Najara followed the tradition of writing new piyyutim according to models of existing … the rapid spread of his songs all across the Mediterranean Jewish world, the local singers, unable to figure out what …
Yiddish – The Mame Loshn (Yiddish - the Mother Tongue)
… used to be a language that was spoken by over ten million Jews around the world. Now, as a result of different factors, such as the Holocaust, American assimilation, and Zionism's insistance on Hebrew as the national language of …
"Shaday emor na dai le-galuteinu" (O Lord, say that our exile is enough)
… by David signed David Haqatan ani , a prayer for redemption. Yosef Ozeiri chooses in which order to perform the …
"Betzet ḥatan be'et qiddush" (When the groom goes out at the time of qiddush)
Wedding zaffa in the form of a girdle poem with two stanzas and two complementary verses…
Mordekhai Seter
… for tenor, three choirs and orchestra depicting the redemption of the Jewish people. This oratorio has been considered since its … Many are based on tunes or motives derived from Mizrahi (Jewish Near-Eastern) traditions. Unlike most composers of …