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The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
This article shows the crystallization of the prayer and singing style known as “…
Arbie Orenstein
Arbie Orenstein was born and raised in New York City, he attended the High School of…
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Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
If you have ever searched for Hatikvah online, you were surely exposed to a barrage of…
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Moritz Rosenhaupt
By Edwin Seroussi
German cantor and composer Moritz/Moses Rosenhaput was born (see…
David Berger
Cantor David Berger has been the cantor of KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation in Chicago,…
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Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
Introduction
Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other…
Tanya Sermer
Dr. Tanya Sermer is a Lady Davis Post-Doctoral Fellow in musicology at the Hebrew…
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac,…
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
Introduction
It is November 15, 2016 and I am sitting in a car, driving on a mountain…
Ben-Zion (Yisrael Noach) Kapov-Kagan
Yisrael Noach Kapov-Kagan was born in 1899 in Romania. He began singing from a young…