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Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… Jewish community. In this city, he taught the Oriental Sephardi liturgical tradition of his native Saloniki. In 1628, he published the … and played an important role in the dissemination in Western Europe and North Africa of the “new” style of …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… From the upcoming release of JMRC's-Anthology of Musical Traditions in Israel: The Historical Recordings of Haim … Haim Effendi was born in Edirne (formerly Adrianople in Western Thrace, today Turkey) in 1853. He spent most of his … He passed away in Cairo in 1938. Haim was a quintessential Sephardi singer of his period, a critical era of deep social …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… piece of the morning service for Rosh Hashanah in the Sephardic liturgy and appears also in the Yemenite rite … 13 th century containing our poem (twice) is the French (Western Ashkenazi) order of prayers for the High Holy Days, … is an order of prayers for the entire year according to the tradition of Worms. Before the poem “Melitz yosher ya’amod, …
Hay ram galeh
… East for many centuries. The zenith of this practice among Sephardic and Oriental Jews and the model for subsequent … hub for liturgical and paraliturgical music in the modern western section of Jerusalem. It also played an important … a late stage in the rooted Middle Eastern Sephardic tradition of turning secular Arabic songs into sacred Hebrew …
Seliha-Selihot
… eve of the week before. The month of Elul is considered by tradition as a month of personal Heshbon Nefesh [self-reflection] on the passing year. Sephardic and oriental Jews maintain the tradition of … about 45 minutes to the prayer. Selihot Tradition at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Origin of the Selihot Service The …
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… is arguably the most impressive text within the Synagogue tradition. Sources of the Priestly Blessing- the Holy Temple … Yom Kippur. All of the Jewish communities in Israel, both Sephardic and Ashkenazi, follow this tradition. In the … Blessing is recited changes from place to place. The western Sephardic communities limited the blessing to the …
Brakha Tzefira
… neighborhood in Jerusalem, where most of the residents were Sephardic Jews from Salonika. Tzefira had unpleasant … as well as that of the Ashkenazi teachers who came from a Western European background, to the oriental melodies. … of Tzefira singing her songs, in that it helped expose the traditions of different ethnic groups to each other, …
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… of the city. The Synagogue's History In 1665, the Sephardic community decided to build a beautiful new … (Nusah) The synagogue conducts prayers according to the Western European Sephardic tradition, with minimal, late kabbalistic elements included. …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… what you think. It does not derive from Smetana nor from a Sephardic prayer. And an early Zionist pioneer did not … Hatikvah on canonic Hebrew texts. Imber, a Jew raised in a traditional family, certainly had access to the Hebrew … melos” that is cross-culturally widespread and of which the Western Sephardic piyyut Lekh le-shalom geshem (see detailed …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… in Latin letters in an inconsistent mix of Ashkenazic and Sephardic pronunciations. None of the songs have … in Binder’s piano arrangement, which serve to add a Western chromaticism to the harmony rather than to create … explained. The individual phrases can all be located in traditional liturgical poems and the lyrics, like many of …