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Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… in both sections as one of the main sources for the modern musicological use of the term. Dalia Cohen (2006, … (2013) correlates the Tiberian system of te’amim with the modern prosodic hierarchy, theorized in Selkirk 1984 and … of Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) and Union of Reform Judaism (URJ) guidelines. The apostrophe is used for sh’va …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… is the sixteenth paragraph of the central prayer of Judaism, the Amidah . It also appears in the Ta’anit … cry”—an octave leap at the opening of a melody—appears in modern Hebrew compositions in which the singing subject … of Debbie Friedman, see: Judah M. Cohen, “Singing Out for Judaism: A History of Song Leaders and Song Leading at …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… home as a performing stage, even though major ceremonies of Judaism which include music take place within the circle of … the character of the texts included in this compilation. As modernity made its inroads into Jewish homes, more metric … between the question (traditional) and the answer (modern). Put differently, in the process of oral …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… accorded the Binding of Isaac a significant role in pre-modern times (Katz 2008). A Yiddish prose adaptation of the … Yet the most outstanding retelling of this story in pre-modern Yiddish literature is the epic poem Yudisher shtam … Tensions between Liturgical Custom and Halakkhah in Judaism . Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press. Levi, Leo. …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… they imply not only the dissociation of those living in the modern state of Israel from the historical landscape from … constitutes one of the “Three Pilgrim Festivals” in Judaism. While a printed version of the song’s poetic text … legacy of the Nahda as a project of a distinctively Arab modernity (Shannon 2006, 58-66; see also Hanssen & Weiss …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… … Questions about the origins, history and (pre-halakhic) Judaism of Beta Israel had also captured the imagination of … they are marked by skin color and discrepant practices of Judaism; interestingly, the band’s repertoire, based on … 11(2):161-173. Gilroy, Paul, 1993, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness . Cambridge, MA: Harvard …
Craig Taubman
… synagogue ' Sinai Temple ' in Los Angeles to write modern music for the Friday night prayer. “Friday Night … Night Live More information: Craig Taubman in the ReformJudaism.org: https://reformjudaism.org/craig-taubman About Taubman as a Jewish composer …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… Cantigas at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century,” European Judaism 44/1, pp. 121-135. … Havassy, Rivka 2011b >>> “From … of the Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) Cancionero on the Eve of Modern Era,” Estudios sefardies dedicados a la memoria de … Mediterranean and Back: A Ladino Song as Metaphor of Modern Sephardi Culture,” Garment and Core, Jews and their …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… seems to animate his writing. Written in a convoluted modern Hebrew prose, Idelsohn uses new Hebrew words coined … Ben Yehuda. He shows an impressive familiarity with the modern Jewish bookshelf, mentioning in this short publicist … Stern, The Genius: Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. … Abraham …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern Jewish musical research. Idelsohn’s life traversed several important arenas of modern Jewish history, including among other things the … Jewish South Africa, and Midwestern American Reform Judaism. What is missing is a picture of the husband and …