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Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… the four days of fast, and thrice on Yom Kippur. All of the Jewish communities in Israel, both Sephardic and Ashkenazi, … developed unique melodies for the blessing, the Ashkenazi community had the richest assortment of melodies, … out loud. In the late nineteenth century, in Lithuanian and Latvian synagogues, they were even sung as chorales. At the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the … makes public a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted … with ideas propagated by musicians in the Jewish community of Palestine. Critic Menashe Ravina (1942, 13), …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … in the institutionalization of the music life in the Jewish community of late Ottoman Palestine (Hirschberg 1995, ch. … from the village of Feliksberg (or Felixberg; Jūrkalne in Latvian), located in this district. [10] Yiska …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one … barrack of the Hussar regiment. At first, I spoke Latvian that was later on replaced by the Jewish-German … a school for cantors. He gave me a place in a Bavarian community. Brainin approved my action in becoming untrue to …