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“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… for Motzei Shabbat. It is performed by Sephardic and Eastern (Oriental) Jews in a variety of melodies and textual … is sung only among Sephardic Jews and those from the Middle-Eastern communities. It is possible to distinguish between … devoted to the Babylonian (Iraqi) Jews and the other to the Eastern Sephardic Jews, as he calls the Jews from Ottoman …
Salamone Rossi
Though much ink has been spilled reviewing the vast musical contribution of Jewish-…
18. Song of Sarah-Umma (Mother Sarah)
… went to the house of Abraham-Abinu. Entering, they had a feast. After the feast Angel Gabriel said, "Sarah-Umma! You will become …
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 … between the circumcision of a newborn son and Abraham’s near sacrifice of Isaac. [18] Within the corpus of early … that even the power of religion is limited. The wane and near disappearance of the Niggun ‘Akedah in the …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… the stolen objects listed in this second version are nearly identical to those in the first version. On the other … of Hebrew Oriental Melodies: Volume 9 The Folk Song of the East European Jews . Leipzig: Friedrich Hofmeister. Noy, Dov …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… largest non-European record company active in the Middle East during the phonograph era; [1] from here onwards, I … to the en masse migration of Jews from North Africa and the Near East, thereby dislocating almost the entire Jewish … image of an Aleppo of the past, it also led back to the nearby Nahlaot quarter, the neighbourhood where Ish-Ran grew …
Elio Piattelli
… Milan, Florence, Naples ...) and France (Sénanque abbey near Avignon, Saint-Louis in Paris, Strasbourg). The … documented in his personal library. One can distinguish at least four specific areas of activity by Piatelli during his … style, their melodic 'flavor', in their simplicity and linearity (which facilitates and favors everyone’s singing) …
Book Review: Music’s Making - The Poetry of Music; The Music of Poetry
… That is, not including issues that are—or should be---at least as important as the ones they did include. What is … Rembrandt. An alternative is to wander haphazardly or at least without a floorplan before us, so that the portrait of … summary article on the cantillation of the Bible, “Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation, An Interpretive …
Rafael Schächter
Rafael Schächter was born May 27, 1905, in Braila (Rumania). After World War I,…