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Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… Melodies of the Liturgy of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews. London, 1857. Shofet kol ha’aretz is a piyyut for Rosh … Avenary concludes that each of the three regions of Western Ashkenaz consolidated their own variants of the … their different modality the two melodies, the “common” or Western and the “alternative” or Eastern, one have some …
Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… and played an important role in the dissemination in Western Europe and North Africa of the “new” style of … of Israel, Turkey and Greece. Through this collection, the Western Jewish communities became familiar with the songs of … text displays the history of the injunction imposed on the Jews of Persia and their salvation by Esther and Mordecai, …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… Haim Effendi was born in Edirne (formerly Adrianople in Western Thrace, today Turkey) in 1853. He spent most of his … transition in the history of the Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old traditional Ottoman Jewish community ruled by … by modernizing trends characterized by an exposure to Western culture (most particularly French), to liberal …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… period, apparently predating its use among Sephardic Jews. Manuscript 85 of the Archivio Storico Comunale of … 13 th century containing our poem (twice) is the French (Western Ashkenazi) order of prayers for the High Holy Days, … poem, and obviously it indicates that in the circle of the (Western Ashkenazi) users of this manuscript there was an …
Responsorial Singing
… reflects early synagogue responsorial forms. Yemenite Jews have preserved the troping of ' halleluyah ' by the … role of the ḥ azzan , it remained significant feature of Western Ashkenazic ( minhag ashkenaz ) synagogue song. The …
Hay ram galeh
… The zenith of this practice among Sephardic and Oriental Jews and the model for subsequent creativity is found in the … hub for liturgical and paraliturgical music in the modern western section of Jerusalem. It also played an important … radio broadcasts and later on via musical films. Jerusalem Jews embedded in the modern Egyptian Arab culture in …
Musical instruments of the Mountain Jews
… by musicians from eastern Caucasus (also Azerbaijan and western Caucasus) in the late nineteenth century, is a small … Navahov. Taken from the JMRC CD The Music of the Mountain Jews . … Rang Ovshori. Taken from the JMRC CD The Music of the Mountain Jews . … Lezginka Khasavyuri performed by Borukh Zavulunov …
Seliha-Selihot
… The Seliha genre blossomed during the golden age of the Jews in Spain during which many were written and their style … on the passing year. Sephardic and oriental Jews maintain the tradition of reciting Selihot during this … about 45 minutes to the prayer. Selihot Tradition at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Origin of the Selihot Service The …
Representations of Jews in the Musical Theater of the Habsburg Empire (1788-1807)
… any musical parallels to contemporary representations of Jews in the spoken theater. Yet these parallels existed and … them sheds new light on the European perception of Jews at this time. David Buch’s new study offers the … 9 … 23114 … 9415 … 2012 … Jews … Theater … Theater music … Western Europe … Opera … David J. Buch … Edwin Seroussi … …
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… the Halakhot that were customary for the Ashkenazi Jews in that period. His version would become the template … Blessing is recited changes from place to place. The western Sephardic communities limited the blessing to the … the congregation recites the response verses. Central and Western Europe The Ashkenazis of Central Europe used to …