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The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… para-liturgical and non-religious music of the non-European Jewish communities whose members relocated to Israel after … to the preservation and research of these distinctive Jewish musical repertoires. Her activities led to the … the detailed examination, analysis, and digital care of the texts and the recordings. Additional relevant sources …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… of the piyyut . His insights on a selection of different texts suggested a comprehensive method for addressing the … in Hebrew) for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, a fast day in Jewish tradition marking the breach of Jerusalem’s … this date was associated with other catastrophes in Jewish history. In spite of its prominence in Jewish …
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 … musical forms and/or combined Hebrew sacred and poetic texts with melodies from pre-existing popular songs, a …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common source, … proposed that musical diversity is the natural state of Jewish culture. Lidarti’s setting was a case exemplifying … understand. Listening to high art music with Hebrew sacred texts “elevates” Jewish musical culture, and introduced the …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… it always sung with the same stanzas or melody. In some contexts it may be referred to as a piyyut , whereas in other … connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s … Below we will compare a common stanza of these two texts: “Adonay hu elohenu,” SHIBA , Stanza 2 משה עלה לשמים …
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 … conversation with Mwijo and it appears also in some of his texts. In spite of the importance of Mwijo’s intra-Jewish …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness through music challenged the normative status of … summer camp, aka Kinder Ring, is indicative of the contexts of performance of “Piramidn.” Although, as Neil Levin …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… associated with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch … 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 …
Melody and Poetry in the “Kuzari” (Hebrew)
… the uses of the various terms in other Arabic and Jewish-Arabic sources, the following interpretation is … the most useful.' … 23135 … Melody … Text-music relations … Texts … Meter … Yehuda Halevy … Hebrew cantillation … Jewish poetry … Poetry … Melody and Poetry in the “Kuzari” …
The Musical Realization of Biblical Cantillation Symbols (te‘amîm) in the Jewish Yemenite Tradition
… by the Yemenites in three different social and religious contexts: (a) the various synagogal services, of which the … and (c) the heder , where the recitation of biblical texts is the basic educational instrument. The Yemenites … of Biblical Cantillation Symbols (te‘amîm) in the Jewish Yemenite Tradition … Uri Sharvit …