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The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… his A Voice Still Heard: The Sacred Song of the Ashkenazic Jews (University Park and London, 1976, pp. 100-101) … Hamnazeah , 1898, no. 66 Avenary mentioned that the “Western” melody, i.e. Sulzer’s, is similar to German folk … Let’s note here that Idelsohn’s comparative approach of Western Ashkenazi metric melodies such as “She’eh ne’esar” …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… association reoriented her research focus from the canon of Western art music to non-Western music, most particularly, the music of religious and … vividly transpires in her encounters with Middle Eastern Jews eternalized in her voluminous recordings. Edith …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… in the article entitled “Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardic Melodies of Qinot for the Ninth of Av.” … maqam-oriented school of the Ades Synagogue of the Aleppan Jews. For many years, Nehemiah was cantor and preacher at … While the Salonika version is slightly more akin to the Western Sephardi versions, whose trademark is the refrain …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… no’am,” which contributed to the early dissemination in Western Sephardic and North African Jewish communities of … in “Imrei no’am,” recounts the injunction imposed on the Jews of Persia and their salvation by Esther and Mordecai, … Rosa Zaragoza recorded the song as “traditional among the Jews of Turkey. ' From the marketing strategy of the song by …
Moshe Cordova
… Europeans) since at least the late 1910s. It was founded by Jews of Italian origin who had broken away from the main … di Constantinopoli (Community of Foreign Jews of the Spanish-Portuguese Rite of Istanbul). Their … for this purpose and transcribed some of his pieces in Western musical notation. Elnadav carried Cordova’s legacy …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… public emotions, of cross-cultural intersections between Jews with the surrounding Christian society, and of marking … this study will also challenge the binary construct of Western and Eastern Ashkenaz that has been criticized in … of Jewish studies. The German model spread well beyond Western Europe, becoming the inspiration for the music of …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… during Operation Moses of 1984-5, when over 6,000 Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel) were airlifted from refugee camps in … Beta Israel were marginalized and oftentimes persecuted as Jews, in Israel their Jewishness came under the scrutiny of … richness of the improvisational performances I recorded to Western staff notation. The daily interactions I witnessed …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… traits that are common to the Hassidic repertoire from Western Ukraine: Slow development of the melodic contour. … to a period of crystallization prior to the penetration of Western tonal thinking (expressed mostly in chordal melodic … of a Hassidic nign performed by non-Hassidic Orthodox Jews in Israel. National Library of Israel, Sound Archive, …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… not only to selections of Al-Ala, but also those from Western Algerian urban music called djiri or ghrnati from … issues emerged during early fieldwork among Moroccan Jews in Israel, it was always a peripheral topic, and mostly … liturgical repertoires mark sonic difference between Jews and Muslims in Morocco. They comprise an intimate space …
El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… song, La’ad aromimkha malki . Crossing boundaries between Jews and Muslims, between Jews from the Eastern and Western Mediterranean, and between Maghrebi and colonial … Jewish life in Algeria and the weakening of the venerable Western Algerian Hebrew Andalusian repertoire. El shokhen …