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Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Yiẓḥak , or ‘Akedah ) has assumed an important function in Jewish religion and culture since Antiquity. This renowned … song describing the deportation of the Viennese Jewish community in 1670 (Turniansky 1989; Steinschneider … some synagogues in Alsace, at Belsize Square Synagogue in London and K’hal Adath Jeshurun in Washington Heights, New …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … the tradition of Calcutta (Kolkata), whose Jewish community traces its origins to Baghdadi Jewry. Sephardic … Seder , notated, arranged and composed by Martin Lawrence (London: New London Synagogue Publication, 1980). The …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … religious Jewish themes, educational songs for children, community and identity-building songs for youth, and … Lawrence A. Hoffman and Janet R. Walton (Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1992), 187-212; …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … as an order according to the order and tradition of the community of Niren Burg that they had from times immemorial … Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese Liturgy ] No. 27, London, 1857) and of Leghorn [Livorno] ([Federico] Consolo, …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its … informs us about the modern crisis of the diasporic Jewish community and its splintering into discrete and often … The entry on Naftali Herz Imber in the Jewish Encylopedia (London, 1901-1906) is a further testimony of how fast the …
Karev Yom
… of the earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after … as a fourteen-year old refugee, to 1946, when he moved to London to pursue a career as a professional actor at the … artistic ambitions could not find expression in a besieged community bound to a war of survival of uncertain results. …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… known as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which originated among the Jewish communities scattered throughout the Ottoman Empire … traditions of the Sephardic communities there. The Aleppo community held on to an ancient performance tradition of … Down – Song and Remembrance among Syrian Jews . Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. * …
Chasidic in America
… (as can be found on the track's entry at the Freedman Jewish Sound Archive ) while others to Alexander Olshanetsky … path often caused a rift with the leaders of the Jewish community, as many did not approve of their cantors becoming … as well as contemporary klezmer bands. Most notably Frank London, the famed New York based trumpeter, has performed it …
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… בן-נאה, ירון 2008 Jews in the realm of the Sultans: Ottoman Jewish society in the seventeenth century . Tübingen: Mohr … רודריג 2000 Sephardi Jewry: a history of the Judeo-Spanish community, 14th-20th centuries . Berkeley: University of … יצחק 1959-1973 Chants judeo-espagnols . 4 vols.: vol. 1, London: World Sephardi Federation, 1959; vols. 2-4, …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… status it acquired exemplify the mechanisms through which Jewish modernity articulated itself on the basis of German … (1870-1942) of the Vine Court Synagogue in the East End of London includes under the music both the original German … moving performance of the song by the cantor of the Jewish community in Basel, Sigmund Drujan-Bollag, took place during …