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Bernardo Feuer
… the hazzan Tzvi Wilner, with whom he studied while working as a painter. He continued more advanced studies in … Rosario. He led that institution’s liturgical choir while David Hickpoff was hazzan. He also worked as a music teacher … same year, he toured South America, accompanying the hazzan David Kusevitzky, and then returned to Buenos Aires, where …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… 11, 2018, in a program dedicated to the memory of Rabbi David Buzaglo z”l, produced by the JMRC. Obviously in a … public.” Having said that, he elaborated on his ground-breaking research of several decades dedicated to collecting, … by his country of birth by no less of a figure than the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, is a testimony of the …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… each developing their own cultural traditions and speaking in their own languages.” 5 The Jews that were expelled … valued as an historical object or as a commercial genre. David Saltiel Below are two recordings of David Saltiel, … his ethnographic recording, with the addition of the backing of a full ensemble (oud, violin, lyre, qanun, frame …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… th century. [1] In his catalog of the piyyut , Israel Davidson (khaf 242) included no less than nineteen printed … Another clear reference to Kikhlot yeini in a German-speaking region is a Hebrew song printed in the anthology of … melody that was apparently the one customary in German-speaking lands at that time. The first variant (with text …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… ) as a reward for observance of the Sabbath. As Rabbi David Abudraham writes, “Therefore we say to the Lord, we … (“[…] a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared […]” II Kings 2:11). Although he was away for a long time, this … Israel were in exile, unable to rest for a moment, and working toward Israel’s redemption. Stanza B: Rav ma h …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… and into their synagogues, where many worshippers were seeking more accessible, communal modes of prayer. Friedman’s … listen to prayers and pleas. Do not turn us away, O our King, empty-handed from Your presence, for You listen with … to God. Examples of this dramatic melodic gesture are David Zehavi’s setting of Hannah Szenes’ poem, “Halikhah …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… kindly with Thy people's lot, And grant them life, our King and Lord. Let Thou the mark of life appear Upon their … Sephardic and Oriental counterparts. In a thought-provoking article on the music of Shofet kol ha’aretz in … according to local tradition. The variants of Amsterdam ([David Aharon] De Sola [and Emmanuel Aguilar], “Sacred …

Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… aligned with the commonly stated goal of music analysis; as David Lewin puts it, “whatever the use to which the analysis … diagrams show the same process of division and analogous marking of levels; see, for instance, Dresher 2013, 294. See … ———. 2009. The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor: Musical Authority, Cultural …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… from September of 1925, did include Na’aleh L’artzeinu, making it the earliest extant notation of our song known, but … (in its Yiddish language version), told me: “I was thinking that actually the melody was quite strange for such a … L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story … David Berger …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a possible source of inspiration: Die Wacht am … [3] Another likely source of inspiration of Hatikvah , looking a bit more eastwards, could have been Mazurek … hosted Imber, such as Israel Belkind, Mordecai Lubman and David Yudlovitch. Some of these changes, included the new …