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Hanukah Blessings
… of the candles occurred in community contexts, special musical settings were arranged. Our Song of the Month … Samuel David (1836-1895). Born in Paris, David received his musical education at the Conservatoire of Paris, where he … background (Sephardic or Ashkenazi) of its members or their religious leanings. Samuel David’s setting of the Hanukah …
Musical Traditions of the Ethiopian Jews
… intensively engaged in documenting and studying the diverse religious and secular musical repertoires of Ethiopian Jews. The present page … Civilisations a Tradition Orale (LACITO) of the CNRS, Ethnomusicology Department, followed now by a new research team, …
Hayrana Laih
… in the Arab world, but also has connections to Jewish musical contexts and musicians. The lyrics of Hayrana Laih … from Arabic to Hebrew, from the secular space to the religious one, and from the vast popularity of the song to a … “Layla Murad: Popular Culture and the Politics of Ethnoreligious Identity,” in The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: …
Ahavat ‘Olamim
… in 2010. This is the third disc in the Contemporary Jewish Music series produced by the Jewish Music Research Centre. It is the product of the initiative … in prayer, in life-cycle rituals, and in non-liturgical religious songs for the early morning vigils, called Shirat …
Hay ram galeh
… it became major hub for liturgical and paraliturgical music in the modern western section of Jerusalem. It also … client for this music that also found a place in Jewish religious contexts. It is important to stress that the … from Arab countries to preserve this musical repertoire in religious contexts. At stake here is the power of Arabic …
The Tedeschian Community
… within the synagogue, and these are apparent in the music: The piyyutim melodies are mostly borrowed from the surrounding culture, and help to bridge between the musical fashion outside the synagogue and the prayer … which bears the attributes of any community, such as: religious belief, common origin, interests, culture, …
Admor
… from the leadership of an ordinary rabbi. The rabbi is the religious leader of the community and his authority is … conduct. The rabbi makes a 'Psak Halakha' (decides on a new religious rule), and his community follows it. Of course, … Zemirot with them. He also took the job of renewing the musical tradition of the dynasty, and acted as a musical …
Kabalat Shabat
… the ritual of Kabalat Shabat has extended beyond the religious communities and into secular circles as well, such … … Piyyutim … קבלת שבת … Liturgical music … Piyyutim … Piyyut … Piyyut … Synagogue music … Kabbalah … Kabbalat Shabbat … Kabalat Shabat …
Contrafactum
… to a technique of converting either a secular song into a religious song or vice versa by altering the words. This … considered it a sacred task to transform secular texts into religious ones. One example of this is the song 'Shechina … … Piyyut … Piyyutim … Piyyut … Paraliturgy … Synagogue music … Secular music … Contrafactum … Ofer Ronen …
Representations of Jews in the Musical Theater of the Habsburg Empire (1788-1807)
… literature and theater has not identified any musical parallels to contemporary representations of Jews in … and nineteenth-century musical theatre... Historians of religious music, ...may now be able to distil from some of … study of Central European compositional practice, Jewish religious music, and the complex interactions and …