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Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… Images: Musical Transcription Transcription done by Abraham Zvi … as a refrain between the stanzas. The text displays the history of the injunction imposed on the Jews of Persia and … Hebrew Song, published in 1922, and is dedicated to the musical traditions of the Persian, Bukharian and Daghestani …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… From the upcoming release of JMRC's-Anthology of Musical Traditions in Israel: The Historical Recordings of … of Turkey In spite of his unparalleled fame as a singer and musician during his lifetime, very few details about the … critical era of deep social and cultural transition in the history of the Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old …
Hanukah Blessings
… of the candles occurred in community contexts, special musical settings were arranged. Our Song of the Month … Samuel David (1836-1895). Born in Paris, David received his musical education at the Conservatoire of Paris, where he … Hanoch Avenary, The Ma’oz Z ur Tune: New Facts for its History, in Encounters of East and West in Music (Tel Aviv: …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… line of the opening stanza, is the refrain (same words and music are repeated) and x, the last line of the rest of the … Shofet kol ha’aretz.” This is the earliest mention of the music of our poem, and obviously it indicates that in the … , 1906, vol. 11, p. 306. Edwin Seroussi. “ Toward a history of Jewish oral traditions: The singing of the prayer …
Hayrana Laih
… in the Arab world, but also has connections to Jewish musical contexts and musicians. The lyrics of Hayrana Laih were written by Ahmed … Egyptians covering a crucial and turbulent period in the history of Egypt and its Jews. Their story shows the extent …
With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen
… The Jews of Yemen possess rich musical traditions, which have always been of interest to scholars of Jewish music, just as their unique cultural history has attracted the attention of Jewish scholars from …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… on the eve of the Russian Orthodox Easter, two Russian musicians met in an encounter that was to have impacts on classical and popular music to this day. Vladimir Stasov, music historian and promoter of the New Russian National …
Hora
… r Moshe (Musa) Berlin (b. 1937), who took his tunes from musical scores and records published in the U.S., used the term Rumanian Hora (see musical example below) for a pair of slow Hora and Freylekhs … folk songs with the Hora 6 , and indeed, many songs in the history of Israeli folksongs were written in the context of …
About the Jews of Yemen, A Vanishing Culture
… This film, by renowned ethnomusicologist Johanna Spector, addresses the history and rituals of the Jews of Yemen, both in Yemen and in Israel. The music and songs of the Yemenite tradition are a main focal …
Almonds and Raisins
… director Russ Karel and narrator Orson Welles, scan the history of the genre from some of the earlier films such as … life. Furthermore, many of these hundreds of films were musicals that prominently featured Yiddish music and Almonds and Raisins gives a special emphasis to …