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Silvia Glocer
… Silvia Glocer is a Professor of Music at the University of Buenos Aires, in the faculty of the arts, where she also received her doctorate in History and Theory of the Arts. For her doctoral thesis, she did research on Jewish musicians who had been exiled to Argentina during the Nazi …
The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer
… Machon Meir, to familiarize them with general Jewish history and Orthodox religious law ( Halacha ) that … until the mid-1980s. You can also find this album on Apple Music , or download MP3s on Amazon . … 42 … 42 … 7 … 38842 … 1 Booklet … Jerusalem, Israel … Jerusalem, Israel … Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem … …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… the death camps. Jewish Saloniki: A Brief Survey The Jewish history in Saloniki is essentially comprised of a few … with them as they migrated, including literary traditions, musical forms and the Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino. The Jewish musical life that developed in Saloniki consisted of these …

Max Lempel
… Service (later on Kol Israel Radio) where he arranged music and accompanied many singers. He also taught for many … at the Jerusalem Conservatory, later the Rubin Academy of Music . Sources: Hirshberg, Jehoash. Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880-1948: A Social History . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995, pp. 95-96. Lühe, …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … career began in the 1960s, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer camps. … The Lion King (1994). These films were milestones in the history of popular music in feature animated films. Alan …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… of the opening stanza, is the refrain (the 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 …
Assaf Shelleg
… Musicologist Assaf Shelleg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) studies modern and contemporary musics with a particular interest in art music written by … book Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History (Oxford University Press, 2014), in addition to …

Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … In the present paper, I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern … The recording is from online resources associated with the “History of the American Cantorate” project (Slobin 1984–86). …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… into obscurity and are only known to experts in the history of modern Hebrew song. Na’aleh L’artzeinu is only … Folk Songs,” it is important to explore first the history of this publication and its author. Though Binder is … remembered for his contributions to the liturgical music of American Reform Judaism and his work on Biblical …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali Herz Imber’s poem … circumstances in which Imber’s poem was shaped and the musical contrafactum (adaption of a preexisting melody to a … sons of Rishon le-Tziyyon perceived in this song their own history, and sang it with great pride [here the song is …