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A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… The Jewish liturgy was never a sealed and unified corpus. Its … with the Western Sephardic tradition, it contains unique texts such as the selection of Psalm verses whose music is … tunes differ to a great extent from those of all other Jewish communities. They contain elements of original Jewish …
Haim Louk
… at Em Habanim school in Casablanca, which integrated Jewish religious studies with general education, including … The curriculum encompassed Talmudic studies, piyyutim (Jewish liturgical poetry), traditional chanting of Psalms, … him for about three years, reading Jewish philosophical texts to Buzaglo, who was blind. Louk viewed Buzaglo as a …
2. El Merecimiento de Isaac (Im Afes Rova Haqen)
… this calamity, God can trust the faithfulness of the Jewish people as Abraham demonstrated by obeying the order … Sephardic melody of this Hebrew poem is applied to other texts of the Rosh Hashanah liturgy. Given its importance and … ed. Dumitru Hîncu et al. Bucharest: Federation of the Jewish Communities in Romania, 1998, 51-58. .ישראל, ראובן …
1. El Atán, el Atado y el Ara (Et Sha'arei Ratzon)
… narrative where the biblical text remains silent. The texts recorded come from free translations of the Jewish liturgy into Judeo-Spanish (that is, not from … tune of the copla La ketubá de la Ley (see below, no. 35). Texts 1b. Rosa Avzaradel (Rhodes) Es hora que las puertas de …
Sarah Harat
… scholarly education, an unusual feature for young Yemenite Jewish girls at the time. Sarah was exposed to the traditional poetry of the Yemeni Jewish women and to the sacred poetry, the Diwan, performed … Halevi, enriched her horizons with studies of sacred texts. Sarah accompanied her grandmother and mother in …
‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… around the mid-sixteenth century from the circles of Jewish mystics of Safed and spready rapidly throughout the Jewish world, especially to Italy. One key figure in these … An alternative order incorporating additional kabbalistic texts and Psalms to the ones in use today circulated in …
"Qiryia Yefefiyah" (Lovely city)
… and other Eastern communities frequently imitated that of Jewish-Spanish poetry. 4. Zadok Zubeiri sings this song in … accompanying himself with a drum. He sings a selection of texts from the following verses, and to conclude he repeats …
Linked by Melody: Gibraltar/Moroccan Songs for Passover (and Shavuoth)
… The two texts differ in their language, theme and genre. The first … of Ashkenazi Jews. A more detailed inquiry into these texts reveals an affinity that explains their melodic …
8-11. El nacimiento de Abraham- version 4: Cuando el rey Nimrod
… story, this text draws on aggadah (rabbinic exegetical texts) and later midrashim , placing Abraham’s birth in Ur … he looked up to the sky and saw a “holy light” in the Jewish quarter, announcing that Abraham was to be born. …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one … the special favor of the Duke who allowed her, as the only Jewish pupil, to visit his German primary school. All her … for remembering melodies that he used to fit to the texts of the zemiros [Sabbath table songs] and to recycle …