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Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
… in southwestern Ukraine). This new production of the Jewish Music Research Centre prepared around the centennial … transcription, transliteration and translation of all the texts into English, Hebrew and Russian as well as … CD + booklet … Jerusalem, Israel … Bukovina, USSR, Israel … Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… repertoire for Purim. It has appeared in many American Jewish songsters at least since Samuel E. Goldfarb’s … the complex process through which modern favorites in the Jewish repertoire were constructed only in the course of the … The tune thus became known in Israel, and other Hebrew song texts were adapted to it. The Yiddish song by Rivesman was …
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 … by their adoption to modern Yiddish and Hebrew song texts. References Brown, Arianne. 2007. The Khanzntes – …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other Biblical texts in liturgical contexts—has attracted the attention of … I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a …
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 … in place and could be transferred to the singing of other texts. The thirteen to fourteen century Ashkenazi Mahzor at … also attested in several medieval manuscripts of the Roman Jewish rite available at the IMHM catalogue. The persistence …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. Friedman’s compositional … of its festive character, is used to express ideas and texts related to glory, kingdom, and lordship. However,the …
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 … one of the main home rituals. The Haggadah , the order of texts recounting the Exodus from Egypt, is read before and …
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 … region is a Hebrew song printed in the anthology of Hebrew texts for the young, edited by Mendel E. Stern, titled …
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 regulates the private sphere among Jewish citizens in the State of Israel. These religious …
Bernardo Feuer
… exclusively synagogue material and included arrangements of Jewish folk songs, choral parts of operas in the original … During this period Feuer also taught music in different Jewish schools in Buenos Aires, where he also conducted the … which still bears his name. Feuer composed works based on texts by Jewish poets such as Chaim Nachman Bialik, Isaac …