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A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… Ashre ha-'Am) of the applicable Scriptural texts which immediately precede it. In the German order of seliḥot, when …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… now relate the power of this day’s holiness). Figure 4. Immediately after the opening gesture, there is another octave … to the affects’ conventions of Western music. Yet immediately afterwards, instead of the dominant (which …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… which include music take place within the circle of the immediate or extended family. The Passover seder (lit. …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the…
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac,…
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… played by a group of Palestinian/Arab-Israeli musicians in mediating for her the intricacies of the ‘mainstream style,’ …
Moshe Attias
… at his court in the Negev town of Netivot. Mwijo couldn’t immediately make the journey from his home in Kiryat Ata, but … jail] and Messiah will come.” It is no wonder then that, immediately after Mwijo’s passing, Deri immediately released the following tribute: “[Mwijo] recruited …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… Agents In conceptualizing how this new biography is mediated by the interplay of human and non-human actors, … of different material and non-material, human and non-human mediators, namely, sound, voice, instruments, devices, … and Andrew Barry write, “identifying music’s constitutive mediations yields a more complex and distributed object (an …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… history, comparative musicology and Jewish music, and a mediator between German culture and scholarship and the … with German and Swiss colleagues: namely, the mediation of the idea of a new, post-war Europe, whose …