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Berukhim atem qehal emmunai
… eliyahu (the chair of Elijah). This poem is known in most Jewish communities around the Mediterranean. Its text by an … of Saloniki, one of the first cantors of the Portuguese community in Amsterdam. It is most likely that this and many … Eastern Mediterranean were transmitted to the Portuguese community in Amsterdam by this hazzan and poet. This is an …
Lekha dodi
… 1505-1584) that is sung to many different melodies in each Jewish community. The Western Sephardi tradition, however, has … variants are documented at the different Spanish-Portuguese Jewish centers, already appears in musical notation (without …
Lekha dodi
… Taken from one of the major anthologies of Curaçao’s Jewish liturgical music that was edited and annotated by … Portuguese melodies that have not been traced back to the community’s musical archive but appeared in Swerling’s … anthology of Hazzan David Aharon de Sola from Amsterdam and London. Performers: Gideon Y. Zelermyer (hazzan) and Raymond …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the recent passing of … National and University Library Born in the small Jewish community in the village of Cuz (Hungarian: Czuz ; today in … liturgical cycle of the Spanish-Portuguese synagogue from London with the Reverend Eliezer Abinun (1912-1998) and the …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… volunteer in Meseret , a center that supported traditional Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and … troupe . Also named Meseret , the troupe played in local community events in a variety of lineups, and with a full … of an Elite. Pafitt, Tudor & Emanuela Trevisan Sami, eds. London: Routledge. Djerrahian, Gabrielle, 2018, “The ‘End …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly community and to the public at large. The historical period … themselves. Similarly, local synagogue repertoires from London through Trieste to Odessa evolved in conversation …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Forgotten Conductor: Heinz Unger and His Search for Jewish Meaning, 1895−1965 . Toronto: University of Toronto … position and was therefore impelled to conduct small community orchestras and later on a provisional orchestra … Mahler: Memories and Letters . Trans. Basil Creighton. London: Time Warner Books. Sacks, Adam J. 2013. “Toward an …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… for the Ninth of Av among the Sephardic and Oriental Jewish communities. The identity of the author is unknown, … occasion; source, Hit h adshut: Journal of the Kurdish Community in Israel 2 [1975]). He became well versed in the … avi, avi, avi, yoshevet galmudah, tzo'eket avi' (Amsterdam, London). The refrain is pervasive to the point that cantors …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… in Hebrew) for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, a fast day in Jewish tradition marking the breach of Jerusalem’s … The Sacred Song of the Ashkenazic Jews (University Park and London, 1976, pp. 100-101) quoting Idelsohn's work (see … of the National Library of Israel (= Ms. 24 of the Jewish Community of Vienna Library), dated before the year 1465, …
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 … liturgical hymns who had emigrated from Iraq to the Jewish community of Palestine in 1935. [14] Hakham Raphael Taboush … Loss Studentship of the Jewish Music Institute (JMI) in London. Earlier drafts of this article have benefitted …