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Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… the whole piece. This rhythmic-melodic peak appears in the middle of the third section out of four, creating a sort of … such as Beimel and Nadel, arranged and published in the pages of his journal. Winz's source for this nign is yet … best conjectural. The following cases show additional lineages in transmission of this nign in other Hasidic …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… Citizen Azmari: Making Ethiopian Music in Tel Aviv . Middletown, CT: Wesleyen University Press. … A retrospective …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… of Islam and the expanding Arab conquests throughout the Middle East, North Africa and Spain, the vast majority of … living in lands where Arab and Persian cultures and languages predominated. Jews of these lands absorbed, integrated … the end of European colonial rule in North Africa and the Middle East. The relocation of almost all Jews from Arab …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… in his enthusiasm for his subject. At his outset, three pages of his preface are given to an exordium of the words … America, but individuals generally walk placidly down the middle of avenue of human experience within the limits sanctified by mid-twentieth century middle USA. Philip Roth, in his Operation Shylock , points …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… process. Differences between diverse local versions and lineages of transmission crystallized into several minhagim … to satisfy the expanding demand. Many unique liturgical passages, whose pedigree and paths of transmission remain to be … Harrán (ed.), Salamone Rossi – Opera Omnia , 13 vols. Middleton: American Institute of …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the … a survey of Jewish culture in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, Russian, Hebrew and Yiddish) usually impede … language of culture and commerce had been German since the Middle Ages for Jews and non-Jews alike,” while “in the …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… the order of qinot of some Sephardic communities in the Middle East, such as Turkey, Syria and Jerusalem, as shown … Avot Synagogue in Jerusalem. He sang in a variety of languages and styles, sacred and secular in Neo-Aramaic (the …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… the largest non-European record company active in the Middle East during the phonograph era; [1] from here … from the Nahda period and/or the liturgical practices of Middle Eastern Jews. While everyone from the Jewish side was … the biography of “ Yom Yom Odeh ” that the following pages unfold is mediated by two main things : the famous …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… after generation of Jews in various vernacular languages, in both oral and written forms (Spiegel … which was in practice in his days, originated in the Middle Ages: “the tune was customary in the fourteenth … the latter, Levi agrees that the melody originates in the Middle Ages, and he mentions the possibility of its being …
Qalonimus ben Qalonimus. Ma’amar be-mispar hahokmôt. Chapitre III, Paragraphe 6 (La Musique)
… Nasr al-Farabi (m. 950) intitulé Kitab Ihsa' al-'ulum . … Middle-Ages … 9602 … Qalonimus ben Qalonimus … Philosopher … Middle Ages … Medieval … Translations … Philosophy … …