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Aharon Amram
… best teachers, while also learning Math, History and Hebrew in a Jewish school. In 1950, as part of 'Operation … he read weekly torah portions, recited Haftaras, and sang songs of rabbi Shalom Shabazi and some Israeli songs that he knew. Following this activity, he received a …
Brakha Tzefira
… one neighborhhod to the next, Brakha was attracted to the songs she heard. The synagogue played a central role in the … of Jerusalem, she and her friends were exposed to Arabic songs and melodies. They used to challenge themselves by attempting to suit the words of Hebrew poems, especially those of Bialik, to the Arabic or …
Elohim Eshala
… Folkways release by the Israeli singer Geula Gill “Yemenite songs and other Israeli folk songs.” Gill (b. 1932 in Tel Aviv as Geula Levavi from a … Yemenite track in this record, the rest being mostly Hebrew covers from the Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) repertoire and …
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… figure in which each of their hands makes the shape of the Hebrew letter Shin ( ש ) , and bring their hands together so … Piyutim, others were adopted from secular Jewish songs, as well as from non-Jewish sources. Some of these … inventions of the priests. In similarity with folk songs in general, while some were uniquely beautiful with …
Hora
… example no.2 ). The Hora dance in Israel In the renewing Hebrew language, the term became a synonym to an Israeli … words were written for these tunes (such as the famous song Hava Nagila and Hora H adera 4 ) 5 . The Zionists settlers also sang Israeli folk songs with the Hora 6 , and indeed, many songs in the …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… be no Klezmer revival as it is flourishing today. The Hebrew National Style While each of the composers of the new … ensembles One of the outstanding forms of the group was the song for voice, piano and either violin or viola. The … the classical and romantic composers. Aside from the two songs opus 91 by Brahms for viola, contralto and piano, the …
Seliha-Selihot
… The word Seliha (plural- Selihot ) means forgiveness in Hebrew. In the singular form Seliha means a piyut of … Lehanim , each of which is adapted to various different songs. For further reading about Siftei Renanot , see here . … … Ezri Yavo from Siftei Renanot (see more details in Song of the Month August 2008 ).One of the most assiduously …
Hay ram galeh
… . H ay Ram Galeh is a contrafactum of the modern Egyptian song Hayrana Laih by Daoud Hosni that featured in our previous Song of the Month. Hay ram galeh was written by Nissim ben … tradition of turning secular Arabic songs into sacred Hebrew ones. Halevi is certainly not a trained poet but …
With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen
… characteristic of the diwan repertoire. Some of the songs are heard in a series of different performances, in … on the basic characteristics of the music of the diwan songs. Each singer chose the stanzas that he wanted to sing, … pp.) … Jerusalem, Israel … Jewish Music Research Centre, Hebrew University of Jerusalem … Anthology of Music …
Cute Boy, Charming Girl
… Cute Boy, Charming Girl: Children’s Songs of the Modern Hebrew Nation(1882-1948) presents Hebrew songs written for and sung by Jewish children in pre-state …