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The Karaite Jews of Israel Reconstruct their Heritage
… theoretical implications of case studies of the role music plays in displaced societies (Reyes-Schramm 1986; 1989; …

The Balaĝ Instrument and its Role in the Cult of Ancient Mesopotamia
… The balaĝ instrument played an important part in ancient Mesopotamian religion, … and circumstances in which the balaĝ instrument was played. … 23462 … Instrument … Instrumental music … balag … …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… and on the second day of Rosh Hashanah, because the story plays a central role in the liturgy of the Jewish New Year … the pentatonic transcriptions (exx. 1, 2, 3, 6, and 12) display versions that date back to medieval times (ex. 16) 16 … on the High Holidays serves as a reminder of the piety displayed by Abraham and Isaac during the episode of the …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… 1948. Neil Levin included this song in an educational long-play entitled The American Jewish Experience in Song …
Moshe Attias
… Mwijo began his music career in Israel singing and playing the mandolin, an instrument associated mostly with … but he would eventually switch to the kemanja (violin played upright in the North African style). Between 1962 and … him to perform in Germany. Mwijo adamantly refused to play in Germany because of the Holocaust – even after an …
Yonatan Turgeman
… approaches to the phenomenon of song as well as the interplay between creative musical endeavors and the formation of …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… we addressed. “Yarad el hay” as found in Seder zemanim displays the close interaction between Hebrew and Judeo-Spanish … Yurchenko and sung by Alicia Benassayag de Bendayan, displays a version with a high level of embellishment. However, …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… a selection of Adler’s editions and issued them in the long-play record titled Jewish Baroque Music . However, it was a … community in Amsterdam. The recording appeared in the long-play Synagogal Music in the Baroque , the first audio …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… in the Arab world during the Nahda era, Jewish musicians played an active role in the performance and perpetuation of … the famous record’s origins—both the song and its singer—I played the copy on my phone to a variety of people familiar … how this new biography is mediated by the interplay of human and non-human actors, this article brings …