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Karev Yom
… was held at the initiative of the Israeli music connoisseur and collector Dudi Patimer. Speaking live from Los Angeles … set to a special melody is for the moment unknown. The present musical setting however provided it with a modern … An anthology , compiled, edited, and arranged by Velvel Pasternak. New York: Bloch Pub. Co., 1968, p. 148. … In …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… online, you were surely exposed to a barrage of factual and fictional information that, in the Internet Age, … stories than they do about the song’s actual historical past. Untangling these stories behind the story of Hatikvah … origins” of the melody and text of Hatikvah as known in the present have generated a rather dense, one-hundred year old …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… commonly performed among the Jewish communities of central and southern Yemen. It is sung at the end of the bridal h … they decorate the bride's hands and feet with the h enna paste. [6] Leah Avraham The performance of 'Qad Zawajunī' … a text to follow these opening lines as she sees fit. The present version of the song is divided into five stanzas of …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… Goldfarb’s Hamenagen [1] (1925). The song in both Yiddish and Hebrew (the latter language is important as we shall see … repertoire were constructed only in the course of the past two or three generations. The formula ‘Haynt iz purim … were adapted to it. The Yiddish song by Rivesman was less present in Israel than in America. Yet, Rivesman’s song was …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… morning service for Rosh Hashanah in the Sephardic liturgy and appears also, since at least the early eighteenth … to Bar Abun is not at all farfetched. Indeed the present-day availability of medieval manuscripts of Hebrew … the printing press. Among the novelties that emerged in the past decade or two are the discoveries of the “Italian …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… Zakhor, March 16, 2019, after four years of severe illness and pain. No other date could have been more symbolic for … tradition, of which Rabbi Atiyah was one of its main representatives of the past generation. For over four decades, a deep personal and …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch directly upon the … diaspora center that emerged during the tenth century in present day southern Germany and northern France. However, … of Yudisher shtam (including two seventeenth century pastiches of it) [23] contain any indication of its …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… song “Piramidn.” The song, whose first line is “In dem land fun piramidn,” appears in Samuel Bugatch’s Songs of Our … “Piramidn” was one of the songs on this album that represented the Yiddish schools and summer camps that, by the mid-1970s, were becoming “a thing of the past.” Its performance by a child soprano in this recording …
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 road that … inspiration, he was ironically greeted by the musicians present as the “thief of songs”, whence he challenged them … that the regime has directed against the country’s Jewish past (Shannon 2015; Stora 1997). Referring to these memories …
Clara Wenz
… specializing in Middle Eastern music, music and sound studies, political ethnography, anthropology of … Middle East. Her current research project chronicles the present and past lives of a Syrian-Jewish musical record which was …