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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 …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a tradition that developed in … the world. There are six sets of melodies or “modes” in the Eastern Ashkenazi tradition of Biblical cantillation; I will … are authoritative for other reasons, within individual communities and denominations. [26] …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… of Kozhnitz (Yiddish name of the town of Kozienice, in Eastern Central Poland). From there the niggun spread to … in Hebrew and Yiddish, a common practice in American Jewish communities at the time. All in all, this Purim suite is a …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… song” or singing game commonly performed among the Jewish communities of central and southern Yemen. It is sung at the … varies according to community. [3] For example in the south-eastern city of Rada'a, which once housed a considerable … is practiced by Jewish communities throughout the Middle East and North Africa and, as in the case of the Yemenite …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… and commercial recordings throughout the European, Middle Eastern and American Jewish diasporas, was a crucial … soul still yearns, And onward, towards the confines of the East, An eye still gazes toward Zion. Our hope is not yet … I knew, the same one that is sung today in all the Jewish communities. At the beginning, neither the song nor the …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which originated among the Jewish communities scattered throughout the Ottoman Empire during … become the central style among a significant portion of the Eastern communities in Israel and in the Diaspora, is a … during the High Holidays, and the newer layer of Middle-Eastern Arabic musical style, which was crystallized during …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… is of Jewish origin, did it originated in Ashkenaz or in an Eastern Jewish tradition. Much of the relevant literature … the idea of a number riddle of this sort appears in many communities and it is usually difficult, if not impossible, … (Tabory, 1988: 66) Variations from Sephardic and Eastern Jewish communities “E h ad mi yodea” began to appear …
Sher
… ago and that it was ‘Jewishized’ to a great extent (at least musically). A broader, more definitive statement can be … that are widely found in the accounts of Jewish Ashkenaz in Eastern Europe, and they are danced among us up until this … much earlier than the nineteenth century, in many Jewish communities and especially in Jewish Ashkenazi communities, …
La Gallarda matadora
… in 1492 and spread around the Mediterranean. Sephardic communities in northern Morocco and in parts of the Ottoman … various countries where they settled. In their diasporic communities Sephardim sang a repertoire of songs in Ladino, … is found in two repertoires of Sephardic romances: in the Eastern-Mediterranean Sephardic communities such as in …
Redl (LKT)
… 245-46, (#263) . “Other dances performed at weddigns in East European communities were:... Redl, Frailachs, Karahod, Hopke , …