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The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… of a popular polonaise. The song includes a rather amusing middle section without text, either a vocalese or an … by the 18 th century Sephardim sang Kikhlot yeini , at least in Italy and perhaps even in Baghdad, on Purim. The …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… other Sephardic traditions in the greater Mediterranean and Middle-Eastern world, became blended to a degree with local …
Jubal in the Middle Ages
… and iron') and a half-sister Noema, of whom the Bible, at least, says nothing. … 23139 … Jubal … Middle Ages … Medieval … Music Treatise … Treatise … Biblical Interpretation … Jubal in the Middle Ages … Judith Cohen …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… 223, 263–267, 318–319; Goldschmidt 1965b, 9), while at least one example utilizes monorhyme. [10] Still, the … 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 …
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 onwards, I … from the Nahda period and/or the liturgical practices of Middle Eastern Jews. While everyone from the Jewish side was …
Clara Wenz
… Clara Wenz is an ethnomusicologist specializing in Middle Eastern music, music and sound studies, political … of religion and relationships between Europe and the Middle East. Her current research project chronicles the …
Nili Belkind
… (2014) and is an ethnomusicologist specializing in the Middle East—with a special focus on Palestine/Israel— and the … … Ethnomusicologist, mainly in the field of music of the Middle East and the Caribbean … Nili Belkind …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… developing a focus on the Jewish musical practices in the Middle East. Significantly, she was also active in the promotion of … a woman and a scientist in a patriarchal society in the Middle East, an intellectual interfacing between multiple …
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 by … of “Boreh ‘ad ana” made by a cantor who hailed from east of Aleppo, the great city in Syria. “Bore ‘ad ana” is …
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 brief general history of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of the cultural life of Jews in Latvia, … language of culture and commerce had been German since the Middle Ages for Jews and non-Jews alike,” while “in the …