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Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… locus ” for discourses that embody “musical corpora of the Jews with what can be called the ‘aura of antiquity’” (47). … was brought about by a common desire, among East-Ashkenazi Jews, to allow for multiple expressive potentialities in the … Expression of Religious Philosophy among the East-Ashkenazi Jews.' Shofar 18, no. 4: 3-24. …
Assaf Shelleg
… a particular interest in art music written by and about Jews. Shelleg is the author of the award-winning book Jewish …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… period, apparently predating its use among Sephardic Jews. Manuscript 85 of the Archivio Storico Comunale of … fragments from an order of Selihot of the Ashkenazi Jews in Italy, dated to the 13 th or 14 th century (IMHM, PH … authority transcended the internal ethnic divisions between Jews from the different lands of Islam. The music itself …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… in the seder . Until the mid-20 th century, most Ashkenazi Jews intoned this text with a pentatonic learning tune … into the Ashkenazi dominated milieu, Sephardic and Oriental Jews learned many metric Haggadah tunes taught in … Questions can be found in Rahel Musleah, ( Songs of the Jews of Calcutta . Cedarhust, N.Y.: Tara Publications, …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… It is performed by Sephardic and Eastern (Oriental) Jews in a variety of melodies and textual variations. Text … 1902), a collection compiled according to the custom of the Jews of Crimea [5] Following is the piyyut text as printed … publication is the main source for piyyutim sung by the Jews of Baghdad. Eli Eliyahu Text Transliteration from …
Arba Otiyot
… This CD is dedicated to piyutim (sung sacred poetry) of the Jews of the Tafilalt (Berb. Tāfīlālt) region, in particular …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… below, attesting that it was known among the Baghdadi Jews until the last generation of immigrants to Israel in …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… in Saloniki at the time. The fire left tens of thousands of Jews homeless and consumed most of the Jewish neighborhood … as a major hub of Jewish cultural activity. Though some Jews had lived in Thessaloniki (the current Greek name of … of Paul to the Thessalonians), the great majority of Jews arrived to the city between 1492-97 after their …
The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer
… fit. The clandestine aliyah (immigration) of Ethiopian Jews that started in 1979 became publicized in the wake of … Aliyah … Israel … Ethiopia … Musical traditions … Ethiopian Jews … Ethiopian … The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… also my partner in curating Sacred Music of the Moroccan Jews , released by Rounder Records in 2000 , an edition of …