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A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… not exclusively, dominated by the singing of paraliturgical Hebrew (and at times Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic) poetry. This … projection of Moroccan Jewish music in Israel and international festivals. The performance of the liturgy, that … and Oriental pedigree and, to a certain measure, to modern colonial contexts, mostly French-Jewish. Yet, this …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… notice the presence of fragments from nign 3 in the Zionist Hebrew repertoire consolidating in Palestine since the late … nineteenth century, becoming an emblematic signifier of modern Israeli culture. As Mazor has shown in his … recorded by Yaakov Mazor in Benei Berak, 11 February 1987 (National Library of Israel, Sound Archive, Y 5614/4,7). …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… klita ), where new Jewish immigrants are housed, taught Hebrew, supported in their first steps in the host society … reuniting with the Jewish collectivity in its contemporary national reincarnation, sparked both media interest and the … 11(2):161-173. Gilroy, Paul, 1993, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness . Cambridge, MA: Harvard …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… worked under the direction of Prof. Amnon Shiloah of the Hebrew University, an eminent scholar of music in the … and had also laid the foundation for what became known as modern Iraqi music. Most of these musicians moved to Israel … Damascus, in tandem with new technologies of mass dissemination (78 rpm records, films, radio stations, LPs and …
Moshe Cordova
… its activities in Istanbul. The Mafṭirim performed Hebrew poetry set to Turkish classical music on the Sabbaths … Israeli Radio from the Ohel Moed synagogue, the central and modern Sephardic sanctuary in south Tel Aviv. Two … from Istanbul, is available in the Sound Archives of the National Library of Israel. The transcription of this piece …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… , “Imre no’am,” which contributed to the early dissemination in Western Sephardic and North African Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew song, which had developed starting in the sixteenth … adage became the opening line of one of the most popular modern Ladino songs, “Pesah a la mano,” authored by singer, …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… of Jacobson’s article, one sees how the allure of Rossi’s Hebrew compositions to modern scholars impacts the perception of his setting of … can see, once again, that delving into the resources of the National Library of Israel Sound Archive has much to offer …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… will be shown below) and are presented to the reader in a modern, annotated edition. A lengthy introduction provides … songs, it seems that the absence of a scholar familiar with Hebrew and Yiddish folk songs was detrimental to this … Leib Joffe (1897) is partially based on the Lithuanian national song Kur bėga Šešupė by the poet Maironis and …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hacohen, NLI, Yc 197 … 714 … In his pioneer publication Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical … could be applied to other poems. The Ms. Heb. 7220 of the National Library of Israel (= Ms. 24 of the Jewish Community … to a rapid diffusion of Jewish liturgical melodies in the modern era. Gershon Efros in his Cantorial Anthology (vol. …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… mobile phone is the copy of a 78rpm record of a pizmon , a Hebrew para-liturgical hymn called “ Yom Yom Odeh ” (Every … musical history, concerns about a Jewish musician’s national authenticity, dreams about a city never seen, or my … they imply not only the dissociation of those living in the modern state of Israel from the historical landscape from …