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Plurivocality in the Liturgical Music of the Jews of San‘a (Yemen)
… Musicologists today agree that the traditional music of the Yemenite Jews has unique stylistic characteristics. These … of certain specific musical elements common to all the Yemenite Jews. The search for these musical elements has … our understanding of the traditional musical styles of the Yemenite Jews. Plurivocality, the simultaneous occurrence …
The Priestly Blessing in the Ashkenazi Synagogue: Ritual and Chant
… shawls of the kohanim . All Jewish communities from Yemen to Lithuania cherish special chants for the ritual and …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… confessional prayers of various communities, such as the Yemenite, Persian and Babylonian Jews. It should be added, …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… included in the Tikhkal , the general prayer book of the Yemenites Jews. In the course of time the text of “She’eh …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… songs about Jewish cowboys (Gottlieb 2004, 64). Also Yemenite-Ashkenazi intermarriages in Israel during the 1930s …
Moshe Cordova
… cantor Refael Yair Elnadav (1921-2012). Elnadav, half Yemenite and half Sephardic, became the caretaker of …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… Urfa) and Iraq (Baghdad), as well as from Iran (Shiraz), Yemen and Morocco who settled in Palestine starting in the … %) are items by Jews from Baghdad (11), Shiraz (9) and Yemen (9), all three communities perceived by scholars such … melodies [“neginot”] from the Oriental Jews (such as Yemenites, Maghrebis, and Persians, and more) with the …
Nahôn libbo is hujire – Whole-heartedly is the fearful believer
… ideas related to the antiquity of the music of the Yemenite and Babylonian Jews were echoed in Stutschewsky’s …
Uri Sharvit
… from 1996 to 1999. He is the author of A Treasury of Jewish Yemenite Chants (1981) and Chassidic Tunes from Galicia …
"Im Nin’alu Daltei Nedivim" (Were the gates of the munificent closed)
… poem is one of the most popular and widely known among the Yemenite Jews. It is sung on many different occasions, at … With Songs they Respond: the Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen … Brakha Tzefira … Diwan … Yemen Jewery … Yemenite Jews … Central Yemen … Jewish …