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Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… “ H ag Purim” was previously set to a variety of religious poems in Hebrew and Yiddish. It was also featured in many …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… of Iraq. The musical and textual character of these poems is more varied than the style of the baqqashot …
Karev Yom
… The rest of the texts are by canonical poets whose poems were set to music by composers of the period, such as … the Byzantine period. It corresponds to a series of seven poems for the Sabbath in which Exodus 12, 29 (“At …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… Tikvatenu (“Our Hope”) in Imber’s inaugural collection of poems Barkai (‘Morning Star,’ Jerusalem, 1886), its … the privilege that in our house he wrote some of his best poems that eventually published in his collection of poems titled ‘Barka’i.’ The song ‘Hatikvah’ was the most …
Or Haganuz
… literary texts (in this case liturgical texts and Yiddish poems) in their music, Hajdu offers a fresh and sensitive …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… phrases can all be located in traditional liturgical poems and the lyrics, like many of the songs in Binder’s …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… as this we can see the move of Western Ashkenazi liturgical poems such as Shofet kol ha’aretz to Eastern Europe. When …
Arba Otiyot
… been codified in a compendium titled Yagel Yaacov . To the poems of this collection, we added piyutim by other authors, …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… and most comprehensive printed anthologies of Hebrew sacred poems from Spain, Italy and the Ottoman territories, Shirim … Library of Israel, Heb. 4° 8660, a collection of Hebrew poems dated in 1899, mostly by R. Israel Najara, includes …