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Four Melodies for Four Questions
… about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a performing stage, even though major … between the religious and mundane spheres in this domestic Jewish ritual. The music for different sections of the …
Hanukkah Blessings
… Blessings while lighting the candles is a well-established Jewish family practice that is usually performed by the head … the first two bars of the Maoz Tzur melody. Scholars of Jewish music from each generation, such as Eduard Birnbaum, … students of the H. C. Miller Cantorial School of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America: Elisa Abrams, …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… of intensive study by a distinguished gallery of modern Jewish and non-Jewish scholars since the early nineteenth-century, starting … of the seder , a religious ceremony anchored in the ancient practices of the rabbis, in the nominally secular kibbutzim …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… song, reflecting once again the intricate ways in which Jewish repertoires were constructed by diverse agents in the … The recordings’ section of the Jacob Michael Collection of Jewish Music at the National Sound Archives of the Israel … National Library, a still largely unexplored treasure of Jewish Musical Americana, includes a magnificent recording …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention of the printing … also attested in several medieval manuscripts of the Roman Jewish rite available at the IMHM catalogue. The persistence …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… The Jewish liturgy was never a sealed and unified corpus. Its … tunes differ to a great extent from those of all other Jewish communities. They contain elements of original Jewish modes intermingled with French chants of the Middle …
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… and Sara. During the Balkan War (1912-1913), many young Jewish residents of Jerusalem fled the city or hid in order … on a cargo boat exporting oranges to Malta . The small Jewish community of Malta wasn’t able to utilize the … in Alexandria , Egypt . In awe of Mizrahi's talent, the Jewish community of Alexandria asked him to stay and serve …
Joseph Achron
… and Moses Michail Milner , he founded the Society for Jewish Folk Music . Achron's association with these … of Russian and European Jewry. Joseph (Yussl) Achron, Jewish violinist and composer, was born May 1/13, 1886 in … In 1911, Achron joined the St. Petersburg “Society of Jewish Folk Music” founded three years earlier by Joel …