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Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… of prayers for the Ninth of Av among the Sephardic and Oriental Jewish communities. The identity of the author is … maqam-oriented school of the Ades Synagogue of the Aleppan Jews. For many years, Nehemiah was cantor and preacher at … in Neo-Aramaic (the vernacular language of the Kurdish Jews), Kurmanji, Hebrew and Arabic. He was a sought-after …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… and settled in Jerusalem. There he founded the Archive for Oriental Music at the Hebrew University. Edith Gerson-Kiwi … vividly transpires in her encounters with Middle Eastern Jews eternalized in her voluminous recordings. Edith … I - Zwei Aufsaetze: Die Musik im Volksleben Nordafrikas; Orientalische Musik und Antike (in German) Lachmann …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… his A Voice Still Heard: The Sacred Song of the Ashkenazic Jews (University Park and London, 1976, pp. 100-101) … Idelsohn’s introduction to volume 7 of the Thesaurus of Oriental Jewish Melodies (1932, p. xxxix), which also refers … melodies.” Figure 5. A. Z. Idelsohn, Thesaurus of Oriental Hebrew Melodies , vol. 7, no. 295 This version is …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… in the sixteenth century that continues amongst Syrian Jews today (Kligman 2009; Shelemay 1998). “ Yom Yom Odeh ” … pizmonim. Many of them continue to be sung by Syrian Jews around the world, where Taboush’s legacy, his persona … of Remembrance and Representation.” Ph.D. diss., School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Doubleday, Veronica. …
Moshe Attias
… he had towards the way the State of Israel treated Moroccan Jews (see more below), he remained a local patriot. A … point to a dialogue with the mainstream of Israeli Oriental pop, as shown by love songs such as the … recruited his artistic gifts to advance the status of the Oriental Jewry in general and the Moroccan Jewry in …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… [1] It has been retold by generation after generation of Jews in various vernacular languages, in both oral and … returned to the subject in the seventh volume of Hebräisch-orientalischer Melodienschatz , dedicated to the synagogue … (when the gates of mercy open), which is sung in oriental Jewish communities during Rosh Hashanah services …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… letters of the Hebrew alphabet, endowed the song with an “Oriental” flavor. So far we have covered the modern Zionist … below, attesting that it was known among the Baghdadi Jews until the last generation of immigrants to Israel in …
Arba Otiyot
… This CD is dedicated to piyutim (sung sacred poetry) of the Jews of the Tafilalt (Berb. Tāfīlālt) region, in particular … institution dedicated to the research of the Sephardic and Oriental Jewry, under the direction of Yair Harel and …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… Motzei Shabbat. It is performed by Sephardic and Eastern (Oriental) Jews in a variety of melodies and textual variations. Text … the metric structure. [7] Abraham Z. Idelsohn, Thesaurus of Oriental Hebrew Melodies (Berlin; Jerusalem: B. Harz, …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… in the seder . Until the mid-20 th century, most Ashkenazi Jews intoned this text with a pentatonic learning tune … into the Ashkenazi dominated milieu, Sephardic and Oriental Jews learned many metric Haggadah tunes taught in … ritual, that of a study session. Ashkenazi, Sephardic and Oriental Jewries therefore applied diverse sonic patterns …