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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 …
"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 …
‘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 …
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 …
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 …
2. El merecimiento de Isaac (Im afes rova' ha-qen)
… 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 …
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 …
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 …
Music Subjects in the Zohar: Texts and Indices
… from the Book of Splendor, the main medieval text of Jewish mysticism, addressing non-verbal sound, song and … Online in NLI website Under the terms of use of The Jewish Music Research Centre and The National Library … + 155 … Jerusalem … Indices … Kabbalah … MKB … Mysticism … Texts … Zohar … Amnon Shiloah … Ruth Tenne … Music Subjects …
1. Oh Lovely Parrot!
… There the parrot flew and settled down. Ayyayya Texts of this kiḷippāṭṭu (“parrot song”) genre are found in … payinkiḷi —literally translated as a “green parrot,” and in Jewish Malayalam an epithet for a very beautiful woman— … and two others (songs 2 and 14) points to a tradition of Jewish roots in what is now the small town of Palayur, as …