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About the Jews of Yemen, A Vanishing Culture
… and many other scenes of music, song and dance, both religious and secular. … 9 … 34249 … … Tradition … 1986 … …
A letter to mother - A Brivele der Mamen
… the film, a Passover seder is also featured and a few non-religious Yiddish songs are sung during the course of the …
Representations of Jews in the Musical Theater of the Habsburg Empire (1788-1807)
… and nineteenth-century musical theatre... Historians of religious music, ...may now be able to distil from some of … study of Central European compositional practice, Jewish religious music, and the complex interactions and …
Contrafactum
… to a technique of converting either a secular song into a religious song or vice versa by altering the words. This … considered it a sacred task to transform secular texts into religious ones. One example of this is the song 'Shechina …
Kabalat Shabat
… the ritual of Kabalat Shabat has extended beyond the religious communities and into secular circles as well, such …
Admor
… from the leadership of an ordinary rabbi. The rabbi is the religious leader of the community and his authority is … conduct. The rabbi makes a 'Psak Halakha' (decides on a new religious rule), and his community follows it. Of course, there is not always a consensus in religious matters. A rabbi can forbid, allow, aggravate, or …
The Tedeschian Community
… which bears the attributes of any community, such as: religious belief, common origin, interests, culture, …
Hay ram galeh
… client for this music that also found a place in Jewish religious contexts. It is important to stress that the … from Arab countries to preserve this musical repertoire in religious contexts. At stake here is the power of Arabic … the soul of the performer and his audience to a heightened religious experience akin to the Arabic tarab . In the case …
Ahavat ‘Olamim
… in prayer, in life-cycle rituals, and in non-liturgical religious songs for the early morning vigils, called Shirat …
Hayrana Laih
… from Arabic to Hebrew, from the secular space to the religious one, and from the vast popularity of the song to a … “Layla Murad: Popular Culture and the Politics of Ethnoreligious Identity,” in The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: …