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Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
Childhood and early musical career
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur (يوسف زعرور) was born in…
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
[1]The triple blessing, or the Priestly Blessing, is arguably the most…
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
The Yiddish language, which probably began to develop around the tenth century A.D. in…
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… enigmatic, elusive figure. In a way, he, too, is like the medieval rabbis so beloved by Jewish Studies—a disembodied …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… to tailor to Hatikvah , inspired by Idelsohn’s table, a medieval Hispano-Arabic ancient pedigree by linking it to … having to overcome the forced conversions of the late medieval period), it is extremely improbable, as Reider …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
Introduction
It is November 15, 2016 and I am sitting in a car, driving on a mountain…
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… Israel Davidson, Otsar ha-Shira veha-Piyut (Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew Poetry) from the time of the signing of the …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… the exegesis in Rabbinic sources, Aramaic translations, and medieval Jewish commentaries (see also Cohen 1972, Khan …