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Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… for all of the Jews of Ashkenaz. There are different traditions regarding when the blessing is to be recited: in … the four days of fast, and thrice on Yom Kippur. All of the Jewish communities in Israel, both Sephardic and Ashkenazi, … the words ' Yishar koa h .' The Simple Reading The musical capabilities of the priests are very diverse and …
Elohim Eshala
… exoticism” that captivated at the time the American Jewish audience. It is clear that the voices of Shoshana … of Dahiyani with Jewish musicians from other Arab-Jewish traditions in Israel, especially Iraqi Jewish musicians. … character even though the basic pattern of the musical phrases is fixed. The Nashid is usually performed …
Brakha Tzefira
… His wife Hadassah, Brakha's beloved teacher, encouraged her musical talents, and proposed that Tzefira should sing … of Tzefira singing her songs, in that it helped expose the traditions of different ethnic groups to each other, … Tzefira knew from her childhood including Sephardic songs, Jewish songs from Yemen, Persia, and Bukhara, as well as …
Aharon Amram
… teachers, while also learning Math, History and Hebrew in a Jewish school. In 1950, as part of 'Operation Magic Carpet' … ). During the seventies, Amram continued with various musical activities. In 1972, together with Gorit Kadman, … Yemenite synagogue tunes, in order to preserve the Yemenite traditions, because their sons did not have fathers to teach …
Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… the Karaites have maintained the basic principles of their traditions. Over the course of these many centuries, … sect's central administration. The Karaite Legacy and its Musical Tradition The Karaite legacy, which was formed and … melody to the same text is performed by Avraham Kanai, a Jewish Karaite from Kazakhstan. The third melody originated …
Edge of the West
… by Arnan Zafrir This hour long film documents the different traditions and day to day life of the Jews of Morocco. The … second third of the film consists mostly of religious and musical traditions that range from Rosh Hashana prayers, the … Complete film on Youtube, courtesy of the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive Virtual Cinema : … 9 … … Hina … Rosh …
‘I’m Sorry, It’s Yom Kippur’: Atonement through Punk (and Traditional Jewish Music)
… playing in 2010 and are a self-proclaimed ‘100% Trans Jewish band.’ One definition to the term transgender can be … cantorial singing, and Jewish melodies (including direct musical quotes from traditional Jewish melodies such as Chad … scale, the band's themes that connect between Jewish traditions, broader interpretations of gender, and the …
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… of both rural and urban folklore and has developed oral traditions alongside an attachment to the written word. Its … baby, a secular activity, was sometimes accompanied by non-Jewish melodies, sometimes by religious melodies, and … strata, makes it possible to speculate in regards to the musical development of the tradition, despite the lack of …
Last Jews in Yemen
… there. In addition to exposing the viewer to the both Jewish and Muslim Yemenites' ways of life, the film also presents different Yemenite Jewish musical traditions as performed in Yemen of the mid 1990s. Some …
Steiger
… A term in use in the European Jewish musical tradition to refer to the different modal types of … made their treatment difficult because, in the past, these traditions were transmitted down from father to son, and it …