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26. After the Bath
… the required ritual bath ( mikveh ) on the morning of her wedding day, and the last lines as a blessing for her … which also pervades song 28 , may refer to the Kerala Jewish belief that when a bride emerges from the mikveh, her … the morning. They formed a procession from one end of the Jewish street in Kochi to the other—in effect announcing to …
24. Blessing for the Bridegroom
… One be blessed! This blessing song was performed on the wedding day by women gathered in the bridegroom’s house. … melody for each stanza to make use of four popular Kerala Jewish melodies associated with joyous celebration. [1] The … 1970 Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew Poetry (4:337, NY: Jewish Theological Seminary) as a source for this piyyut. …
23. Happiness to the Bridegroom
… The song features four of the different Malayalam Jewish names for God, while blessing the groom with … it would be better to use a tune more appropriate for a wedding, but no one has offered an alternative. … 52 … 7 … …
20. The Command Is Proclaimed
… than twenty notebooks, representing almost all the Kerala Jewish communities. Ruby Daniel chose it as a particularly … on Ḥatan Shabbat , the “Bridegroom’s Shabbat,” after the wedding (Daniel & Johnson 1995, 188). She and her aunt, … when he composed song 72 , the Zionist song “Hope in the Jewish Heart.” The fourth is from the Hebrew piyyut …
19. As You Stand Before Us (Saturday Night Bride Song)
… to the house in which she was to stay until the day of the wedding. From Daniel’s fuller description of the evening's … for a special meal for the bride on the Shabbat after the wedding. The song’s text contains many references to … hopes for the future, with no particular reference to the wedding or the bride. When this song was recorded in 1977 by …
9. Paradesi Synagogue Song
… translated here as “some others,” might come from the Jewish Malayalam saying, “Why don’t you ask four people?”—a … from silk hangings to form a symbolic bridal chamber for wedding celebrations or a temporary ark for the Torah … in order to represent the synagogues of as many Kerala Jewish communities as possible. Venus Lane set it to a …
8. El Debate de las Flores
… Tu BiShvat, as well as on other festive occasions such as weddings. It is a text based on ancient and universal poetic … Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not only) for Tu BiShvat.” In Jewish Music Research Centre Website. Weich-Shahak, Susana. 2012. …
Yaakov Huri
… relations dominating the encounters between European ethnomusicologists and their subjects of inquiry in Israel. Our … as rabbi. Huri belonged to the Zionist sector of the Jewish community. This sector, unlike the yeshivah students … a photograph she sent from Baghdad to Yaakov, May 14, 1938 Wedding of Yaakov and Sima Huri, Jerusalem, 1940 During the …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… study aims to trace the unique characteristics of a type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European … songs that were instrumentally performed at Israeli Hasidic weddings. Second, they intentionally do not relate to the … as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… Childhood and early musical career Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur (يوسف زعرور) was born … This generational tension between well-to-do Baghdadi Jewish families and their youngsters who loved music and … (the Pataw and Bassoon ensembles) who entertained at weddings and other joyous occasions in Baghdad. This gave …