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Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its practice at ceremonies of Jewish institutions, synagogues, schools and youth … song. In this context we have to differentiate between two practices: the adaptation of its melody to other religious …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, … I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a … from before World War II. Rich ethnographic work on current practices in the United States can be found in Summit 2000 …
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 …
The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer
… of Operation Moses when a significant proportion of the Jewish population of Ethiopia was flown from the Sudan to … in Jerusalem, Machon Meir, to familiarize them with general Jewish history and Orthodox religious law ( Halacha ) that … lead to the rapid erosion of the autochthonous liturgical practices of the Beta Israel. Under the initiative of Prof. …
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 … not only singing traditions but very specific liturgical practices from different Jewish communities in Morocco, in …
Inventing Jewish Music
… It was 1848, and the music of central Europe's Jewish communities was in a state of chaos. In the cities, … sense of isolation and abandonment. The very nature of Jewish identity was being questioned from within Jewish … by the growing awareness that Jewish musical practices differed from community to community, from country …
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 … between communities. We know that medieval Ashkenazi prayer practices were of a strong oral character: the individual …
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 … identity. Religious zeal intertwines with modern secular practices, while rooted musical and textual genres interlace …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… the piece was not necessarily connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s …
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 … traditions from the Nahda period and/or the liturgical practices of Middle Eastern Jews. While everyone from the …