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Elohim Eshala
… late Romantic techniques employed to represent the “Middle East,” underscores the composer's classical European … as the solo clarinet in the opening that recalls in fact Eastern European Jewish music. The attempt in the first … was grounded on the assumed social isolation of the Jewish communities in Yemen from the surrounding Muslim majority, …
Kedusha
… Some of the additions were adopted by all of the Jewish communities, while some only by a few. Although the prayer … CE. During that period, in the Byzantine Empire, Jewish communities were persecuted and were prohibited to recite … have a unique melody. However, in the Ashkenazi Nussach of Eastern Europe, for example, there is a tendency to perform …
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… days of fast, and thrice on Yom Kippur. All of the Jewish communities in Israel, both Sephardic and Ashkenazi, follow … Three Pilgrimage Festivities and the High Holy Days. The Eastern European communities took the limitations the … for the Priestly Blessing. Paradoxically, it was, at least in part, because the Ashkenazi Diaspora communities …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… In the spring of 1897, on the eve of the Russian Orthodox Easter, two Russian musicians met in an encounter that was … theater and music circles of New York and other Jewish communities of the period. His arrangements lack the …
Admor
… a scion of a dynasty of Tsadikim (righteous men), who led communities of H assidim for generations. Most importantly, … and material levels. In the geographic conditions of Eastern Europe, the pilgrimage to the Tsadik was, as … to the Tsadik more often, while others tried going at least once a year. The popular times to travel to the Tsadik …
The Tedeschian Community
… of Ancona and Florence, all of the Tedeschian Jews communities were in the Po Valley [2] and its surroundings: … are from Torino in the west to Trieste and Gorizia in the east and from Milano in the north to Florence and Ancona in … the immigrating generation still existed. Like many other communities, the synagogue functioned as the center for this …
Moyshelekh Un Shloymelekh (part 2)
… Hassidic mode offers a chilling reference to the old Jewish communities of Eastern Europe that vanished in the Holocaust. It can also …
Bin Tavinu Liqnot Bina Ha'azinu
… number of Najara's songs in the oral musical tradition of communities from Morocco to Persia. The performance of … reflect the original musical intentions of Najara, or at least the spirit of his intentions. This was made possible by … research of the oral tradition of the Sephardic Jews of the Eastern Mediterranean. Afterwards, the performing artists …
Cantar de las Flores
… cycle. This copla is documented in the tradition of the Eastern-Mediterranean Sephardim: in various manuscripts: a … actual oral tradition it has been almost forgotten in the communities of the Eastern area, but is widely known by the Sephardim of …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… also in the Yemenite rite where it has been found since at least the early eighteenth century (see, manuscript Berlin - … is that this Western Ashkenazi source apparently moved eastwards, as it contains many Eastern Ashkenazi texts added … and an “alternative” tune (seven variants) preferred by the communities of the “Polish rite” (East of the Elbe and …