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Arba Otiyot
… This CD is dedicated to piyutim (sung sacred poetry) of the Jews of the Tafilalt (Berb. Tāfīlālt) region, … piyutim by other authors, which are related to the Moroccan Jewish tradition. The concept and performance of this … … 1 … 1 … 7 … 38843 … 64 … Jerusalem, Israel … Jewish Music Research Centre/The Ben-Zvi Institute/NaNa Disk …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… of the Land of Israel (1882-1946) . … Not all traditional Jewish holiday songs have survived in their original … Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini, which used to be performed in Jewish communities on Purim, especially in Germany, is one … the borderline between medieval secular and sacred poetry characteristic of the Andalusian Sephardic milieu. …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of … single-handedly maintained and kept alive the Moroccan Jewish singing tradition in Israel against all odds. He was … Jewry’s foremost paytan , an expert in the religious poetry sung as part of the liturgy, in paraliturgical events …
Melody and Poetry in the “Kuzari” (Hebrew)
… the uses of the various terms in other Arabic and Jewish-Arabic sources, the following interpretation is … … Texts … Meter … Yehuda Halevy … Hebrew cantillation … Jewish poetry … Poetry … Melody and Poetry in the “Kuzari” (Hebrew) …
Paradigms of Arabic Modes in the Genizah Fragment Cambridge T.S. N.S. 90,4
… family life, education, public affairs, commerce, medicine, poetry and learned studies in the Jewish community of old Cairo (Fostat) and other towns of … … Medieval … Middle Ages … Cairo Genizah … Geniza … Egypt … Jewish History … Manuscripts … Modes … Arabic modes … …
Yemenite Qasīd Songs (Hebrew)
… Besides the types of Jewish poetry in Yemen - nasid, sirah, zaffeh, haduyo and hallel … folk poets. The subjects are amusing tales from the Jewish lore, such as the Creation, Adam and Eve in the …
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 … in Jewish lore and its prominent role in Ashkenazi sacred poetry, the meagre research concerning the melody to which …
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 … that Chetrit transcribed for his research on Judeo-Arabic poetry from Morocco. For now, Silver comments, only one …
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 … provided in Davidson’s Thesaurus of Mediaeval Hebrew Poetry points to Iraq (especially Baghdad) and Jerusalem as …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… for addressing the musical aspects of Hebrew liturgical poetry from an evolutionary diachronic perspective. Among … 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 …