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Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… of the Stephen S. Wise Free Synagogue in New York City. Rabbi Wise, an outspoken pioneer of American Zionism and one … in Latin letters in an inconsistent mix of Ashkenazic and Sephardic pronunciations. None of the songs have …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… between the phrasing of the te’amim and the exegesis in Rabbinic sources, Aramaic translations, and medieval Jewish … “te’amim” and “ta’am.” The transliteration follows modern ( Sephardi ) Hebrew. [10] Jacobson 2013 and Strauss Sherebrin … and Moroccan traditions in Israel, with the Jerusalem-Sephardi tradition as a control group. Ne’eman finds that …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… 2. Venizia/Gorizia 3. Province Ashkenazi/Sephardi Ashkenazi/Sephardi Ashkenazi/Sephardi 3 Ashkenazi/Sephardi 4 Baer 1 … Peninsula; see Abrahams 1920). Even the name of Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Itzhak) appears as possible author. All these …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… Ashkenazi learning tune Already in the late Middle Ages Rabbi Jacob ben Moses ha-Levi Moellin (1360?–1427; referred … of socialization into the Ashkenazi dominated milieu, Sephardic and Oriental Jews learned many metric Haggadah … Jewish community traces its origins to Baghdadi Jewry. Sephardic melodies of this kind are also found in Abraham Z. …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… Courtney Blue The piyyut “Eli Eliyahu” is attributed to Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra, considered one of the last great … of a baqqasha for Motzei Shabbat. It is performed by Sephardic and Eastern (Oriental) Jews in a variety of … Performances The piyyut “Eli Eliyahu” is sung only among Sephardic Jews and those from the Middle-Eastern …
Arba Otiyot
… the lore of the venerated tzaddiq (Heb. virtuous/ holy man) Rabbi Yaacov Abuhatzira and the members of the rabbinical dynasty he founded. The songs have been codified … University institution dedicated to the research of the Sephardic and Oriental Jewry, under the direction of Yair …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… secular and sacred poetry characteristic of the Andalusian Sephardic milieu. The lyrics cover an apparently earthly … notes to the CD, The Sword of the Dove: Purim Songs in the Sephardi Tradition (2000) by the Boston-based ensemble Voice … tractate to be “studied” on Purim, by the Italian-Provençal Rabbi Kalonymus ben Kalonymus ben Meir Hanasi, who lived in …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… The Sephardic copla, El incendio de Saloniki (The Fire of … as well as over thirty synagogues, including the Chief Rabbinate. 1 Map displaying the extent of the fire, with … consisted of these forms and, similar to many other Sephardic traditions in the greater Mediterranean and …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya on Shabbat Zakhor, March 16, 2019, … season according to the Moroccan tradition, of which Rabbi Atiyah was one of its main representatives of the past … the face of their vanishing under the pressure of Israeli-Sephardic standardization. In spite of his variegated …
Bernardo Feuer
… her visit to Argentina, 1959 Feuer also worked with the Sephardic Jewish and the German Jewish (Bnei Israel) … choir from the Youth Group Ramah, [2] which was directed by Rabbi Marshall Meyer. He also prepared the first Bat Mitzvah ceremonies in the Sephardic community during this period. A photo of the …