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The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… the period) Western musical taste of the small but affluent Sephardic community of the Netherlands in the 18th century. … text of the first piece, Odu la’el qir’u bishmo , penned by Rabbi Isaac Aboab da Fonseca (1605-1693), was written for … as a liturgical reshut , an introductory piyyut that Sephardic cantors used to insert at the opening of the …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… Our song of the month concerns a Sephardic song commonly sung on the Passover and Shavuot … a volume dedicated to the writer and scholar of Spanish and Sephardic literature, Paloma Díaz Mas. Maftirim, “Adonay hu … who would eventually become a central figure in the Livorno rabbinate. Meldola’s source is titled Seder zemanim , which …
Moshe Attias
… the yearly celebrations of the death anniversary of saintly rabbis, remained a main stage for Mwijo’s performances in … in 1978 at the main hillulah in Israel, the celebration of Rabbi Simeon Bar Yochai in his tomb in Meron (Upper Galilee) … Mwijo’s militant allegiance to the orthodox, right-wing Sephardic party Shas and its leader, Aryeh Deri. Again, the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 … muwashshah ), meter and rhyme pattern, betray its Sephardic origins, although other options (such as Italian) … tractate to be “studied” on Purim, by the Italian-Provençal Rabbi Kalonymus ben Kalonymus ben Meir Hanasi, who lived in …
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 …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… Courtney Blue The piyyut “Eli Eliyahu” is attributed to Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra, considered onle 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 …
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. …