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Melody and Poetry in the “Kuzari” (Hebrew)
… … Texts … Meter … Yehuda Halevy … Hebrew cantillation … Jewish poetry … Poetry … Melody and Poetry in the “Kuzari” (Hebrew) … …
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 …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… for the Ninth of Av among the Sephardic and Oriental Jewish communities. The identity of the author is unknown, … ana' in a manuscript of qinot from Spain dated in 1481 ('Poetry as an expression of spiritual reality in the late … Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim Beinart on the …
Moshe Cordova
… ma ka m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our … was the move to Istanbul, together with many of the Edirne Jewish community, following the devastation of this city … its activities in Istanbul. The Mafṭirim performed Hebrew poetry set to Turkish classical music on the Sabbaths at the …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… volunteer in Meseret , a center that supported traditional Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and … around an absorption center ( merkaz klita ), where new Jewish immigrants are housed, taught Hebrew, supported in … molten gold is poured unto the clay mold. Coded speech and poetry, presented in minimalistic texts (the wax), is both a …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… the article “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the … analyzed in detail in that article. Research of Moroccan Jewish religious music has been largely, if not exclusively, … Hebrew (and at times Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic) poetry. This poetry is set to Andalusian musical genres, not …
Salim Shibith (Salim Ha-Cohen)
… step of engaging a teacher of Arabic literature and poetry to augment his education at a Jewish school in Baghdad. We hear a familiar story: Shibith was requested to complete a performance at a Jewish club one evening when al-Qundarji became too …