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Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… The collection of historical Jewish field recordings at the … with biblical cantillation, prayers and piyyutim (songs of religious content) for Sabbaths, Holydays and life … earliest recordings of Shirei Eretz Yisrael (Songs of the Land of Israel). Lurie’s informants differ, as far as we can …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the recent passing … southern Israel where he recorded new immigrants from the Island of Djerba (Tunisia), a community that became a focus of … the Ashkenazi repertoire of zemiroth Shabbat (Sabbath table songs; for an example see here ), which he recorded and …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… إلنا خل / فوق النخل) “Fog al-Nakhal,” is nowadays one of the most popular songs in the Middle East. It is a muwwashshah, “girdle” … of Israel to look eastward to “strengthen the desired land of [their] fathers” in supplication to God for …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… Words , 1946]: This research was supported by a grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Israel and the … in Beregovski’s Evreiskiie narodnyie pesni [Jewish Folk Songs] – the collection that Beregovski prepared for … piece throughout the vast Jewish settlement in Ukraine, Poland and Russia. Thus, recent ethnographic work among …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… I spent the summer of 1989 living in a Nazareth Illit (today Nof … … But the community underwent (and still does) a hard landing in Israel. In 1989 most of the immigrants had … 4). Chapter 6 provides detailed musical analysis of several songs: a solo voice and masinqo performance, a solo voice …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… 2 … 10 … 708 … The 78rpm recordings that are still emerging from archives … show, among many other matters, that widely popular songs from the turn of the 20th century are absent from late … yarem, amán. The song is found among Sephardim from the Island of Rhodes. Two versions from Rhodes are a written …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis collection . … spoken by Jews throughout the Baltic provinces” and in Kurland (Courland, the part of Latvia where many Jews lived) …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Edith Gerson-Kiwi (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and … recorded items (each one comprising several units, such as songs and dialogues), which, although already digitized and … Israel, Gerson-Kiwi outlined a picture of a Jewish academic landscape in Palestine / Israel that was characterized by …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… … 714 … In his pioneer publication Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, … is found in the last of a series of five folios with songs for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, all framed by the seli … prior to the “immigration of Jews from Ashkenaz to Poland in the sixteenth century,” is precarious. …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… in a car, driving on a mountain road that winds down along the Lebanese coastline, overlooking the Mediterranean … and poetic texts with melodies from pre-existing popular songs, a practice with roots in the sixteenth century that … living in the modern state of Israel from the historical landscape from which the famous record emerged, but also the …