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Nitzan Hen Razael
… His style combines folk-rock with world music from both the East and the West, as well as different Jewish music. Razael … also wrote transcriptions of piyyutim from several Jewish communities' traditions. During the years 2005-2009, he …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… the second blessing after Shema is sung to the tune of the Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish song “La rosa enflorece” … by the popular singer Yehoram Gaon, whose family is of Eastern Sephardi origin. It is also widely sung, following a … Moroccan liturgy in comparison to other traditional Jewish communities where a soloist ḥazzan stands out. Singing of …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… of Jewish liturgical music developed in German-speaking communities parallel to the gradual rise of German music as … was idiosyncratically developed by Hirsh Weintraub, an Eastern European cantor, and continued by Eduard Birnbaum in … will also challenge the binary construct of Western and Eastern Ashkenaz that has been criticized in other fields of …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… repository of sound and ethnographic documentation of Eastern European Jewish music and folklore. The complicated … for the benefit of the wider scholarly and artistic communities and the broader public. The present report, … which the Hassidic nign evolved in Right Bank Ukraine and East Galicia. This project partially depends on further …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… the (sporadically documented) scene in nineteenth century Eastern Europe, retains the internal logic of klezmer as a … mode of expression with its own variations across Jewish communities, limiting his analysis to melodic material, … the field continues to move forward. … 12108 … Klezmer … Eastern Europe … Naftule Brandwein … Dave Tarras … New York …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… that includes liturgical, para-liturgical and folk tunes of Eastern European and Babylonian Jewish communities. This release, available for streaming here, …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… that begins with the emancipated and assimilated Jewish communities of the Old World and ends with the integration into the formerly East European Jewish communities of the New World. But as Tesler-Mabé clarifies, …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… function, to another minhag , that of the Romaniote (Greek) communities . We should notice that other verses of … of Festivals. Recordings of cantors from three different communities in Italy follow here: Your browser does not … led Jacobson to his conclusion that Rossi knew at least one “real” Jewish (oral) melody. To make his case, …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… devoted attention to the collection of songs from minority communities which inhabited Latvia, namely, Jews, Roma, … a brief general history of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of the cultural life of Jews in Latvia, … According to Karnes, folk songs were collected in Eastern Europe since the 1850s, decades after this practice …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… for the Ninth of Av among the Sephardic and Oriental Jewish communities. The identity of the author is unknown, except … of qinot of some Sephardic communities in the Middle East, such as Turkey, Syria and Jerusalem, as shown by … of “Boreh ‘ad ana” made by a cantor who hailed from east of Aleppo, the great city in Syria. “Bore ‘ad ana” is …