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Nitzan Hen Razael
… of the Ministry of Education in charge of writing the Poetry Curriculum, ' Poems and Roots' (2006). 'Motze Makom': …
Salim Shibith (Salim Ha-Cohen)
… step of engaging a teacher of Arabic literature and poetry to augment his education at a Jewish school in …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… Hebrew (and at times Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic) poetry. This poetry is set to Andalusian musical genres, not only to … biblical and oral law passages, post-biblical prayers in poetic prose and poems (piyyutim) spanning almost a …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… for the multiple semantic layers that characterize Amhara poeticism—for understanding song texts. The idiom draws on … molten gold is poured unto the clay mold. Coded speech and poetry, presented in minimalistic texts (the wax), is both a …
Moshe Cordova
… its activities in Istanbul. The Mafṭirim performed Hebrew poetry set to Turkish classical music on the Sabbaths at the … the acting chief rabbi of Istanbul, Haim Bejerano (also a poet and composer), Itzak Algazi, the composer/singer of … of the recording of the second piece, El lo yishan , by a poet named Aharon, perhaps the late 17 th century Aharon …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… Global Village). Traditional patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… two verses of the h osha’ana by the Byzantine liturgical poet Rabbi Eleazar HaKalir (c. 570-c.640), “Amen yish’akha … poem ends with verses composing the acrostic of the poet starting “Avi ‘ad hash leta’arekh.” This last section … minhag Italiani . The final two verses, a blessing by the poet to his audience, are not part of the acrostic but they …
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. …
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 …
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 …