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The Hallelôt in the Yemenite Dīwān (Hebrew)
… The hallel ô t have not yet been examined as a poetic genre, a fact that hampers the musicologists. A …
Yemenite Qasīd Songs (Hebrew)
… Besides the types of Jewish poetry in Yemen - nasid, sirah, zaffeh, haduyo and hallel - there is a further poetic form known as qasid . While the other types … time. The composers of these songs were mostly gifted folk poets. The subjects are amusing tales from the Jewish lore, …
Greek Epic and Kypriaka: Why “Cyprus Matters”
… Age. Did they bring with them a tradition of oral heroic poetry, cognate to that which eventually culminated in Homer …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… on midrashic interpretations and offer highly embellished poetic retellings of the story (Fleischer 2007, 470; … in Jewish lore and its prominent role in Ashkenazi sacred poetry, the meagre research concerning the melody to which … as the seventh of eleven “Ashkenazic tunes for individual poetical texts,” claiming that some of them may date back to …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… Edelstadt (1866–1892), one of the radical socialist Yiddish poets who settled in the USA in 1881, penned the text of … Source: Edelshṭadṭ's shrifṭen, a zamlung fun ale zayne poetishe shrifṭen in poezye un proza , New York: Hebrew … rapidly crossed the ocean back to the lands from where the poets and composers who composed them had immigrated. …
Moshe Attias
… that Chetrit transcribed for his research on Judeo-Arabic poetry from Morocco. For now, Silver comments, only one … in the Hebrew press as a payytan (singer of religious poetry), Cheikh Mwijo rarely recorded piyyutim (for an …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… to these musical forms and/or combined Hebrew sacred and poetic texts with melodies from pre-existing popular songs, … world, where Taboush’s legacy, his persona as well as his poetic and musical talents, have taken on an almost mythical … in Judaism. While a printed version of the song’s poetic text can be found in a manuscript from the Cairo …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… for addressing the musical aspects of Hebrew liturgical poetry from an evolutionary diachronic perspective. Among … this fast day has not generated nearly as much Hebrew poetical creativity as the Ninth of Av, the fast day marking … common European song.” Melody emerges in this case from the poetic form and meter of the text. In his words, “the …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… ana' in a manuscript of qinot from Spain dated in 1481 ('Poetry as an expression of spiritual reality in the late … Figure 2. 'Bore 'ad ana,' Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew Poetry , Israel Davidson As shown above in the list of … sources by Israel Davidson’s Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew Poetry , “Bore ‘ad ana” was mostly known in the Sephardic …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… made in any language by Leah Goldberg, the renowned Hebrew poet. There are also a few Jewish songs of Lithuanian … on the Lithuanian national song Kur bėga Šešupė by the poet Maironis and composer Česlovas Sasnauskas. The Hebrew … Akara (Barren) is sung ( Zemereshet #3645 ; its text is by poetess Rachel Bluwstein). Example 2 compares both songs. …