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The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… music, most particularly, the music of religious and ethnic communities in British Palestine. In the footsteps of Robert … a focus on the Jewish musical practices in the Middle East. Significantly, she was also active in the promotion of … and a scientist in a patriarchal society in the Middle East, an intellectual interfacing between multiple musical …
Nili Belkind
… and is an ethnomusicologist specializing in the Middle East—with a special focus on Palestine/Israel— and the … reflects and forms identities, and in the process, shapes communities. Author has "followed the conflict" by … mainly in the field of music of the Middle East and the Caribbean … Nili Belkind …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… largest non-European record company active in the Middle East during the phonograph era; [1] from here onwards, I … the Nahda period and/or the liturgical practices of Middle Eastern Jews. While everyone from the Jewish side was … fit in here? If historical records had allowed the Jewish communities that emigrated from countries such as Syria, …
Moshe Attias
… and composers, from a family of musicians going back at least to his grandfather. His father, Yaakov Attias, also a … international recognition and popularity among the various communities in Israel, Mwijo remained deeply anchored in the …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… far greater than that accorded to it by other Jewish communities (Weinberger 1998, 5–6, 184; Fraenkel, Gross, and … 223, 263–267, 318–319; Goldschmidt 1965b, 9), while at least one example utilizes monorhyme. [10] Still, the … Thursday, Good Friday and Saturday of the Holy Week before Easter (fig. 4; Liber Usualis 1961, 631–637; Schleifer …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… song Kikhlot yeini, which used to be performed in Jewish communities on Purim, especially in Germany, is one of those … led to print and manuscript distribution among Sephardic communities in the Ottoman Empire, independently of its … by the 18 th century Sephardim sang Kikhlot yeini , at least in Italy and perhaps even in Baghdad, on Purim. The …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… and vicissitudes in Spain that greatly affected the Jewish communities there. In 1140 Ibn Ezra immigrated to Italy, and … for Motzei Shabbat. It is performed by Sephardic and Eastern (Oriental) Jews in a variety of melodies and textual … is sung only among Sephardic Jews and those from the Middle-Eastern communities. It is possible to distinguish between …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… performing the answers to the questions. In some Ashkenazi communities, a paraphrase in Yiddish followed the Hebrew … phrase, a common learning technique in religious schools in Eastern Europe. Our website includes two illuminating … passing tones, 2, 7flat and 7 that hints to a more Eastern European character. Baer Ma Nishtana, 1877 Close …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… in the Sephardic liturgy and appears also, since at least the early eighteenth century, in the Yemenite rite … 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 …
Haggai Ben-Shammai
… Bible exegesis and philosophy, history of Jewish communities in Islamic countries, and Islamic theology. He … such as the Ben Zvi Institute for the study of Jewish Communities in the East, the Center for the Study of Judaeo-Arabic Culture and …