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Jeff Klepper
… Jeff Klepper is an American Jewish Cantor, and one of the pioneers of the singer-songwriter style that took over American …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… This is a short extract of the article “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is … the audio element. 5:55 Half qaddish, performed by the cantor. The first part of this prayer is sung to the melody …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly community and to the public at large. The historical period under … conceptualization of an endangered “heritage” of solo cantorial music (at times framed within a Jewish national …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… first stop for those wishing to have some understanding of the complicated subject. Indeed, nearly everything about the history of Jews and jazz music is difficult to … only marginally so. Later in his life Smith would serve as cantor in a Black Jewish synagogue in New York. In an …
Moshe Cordova
… 1881 – d. Tel Aviv, Israel, 22.12.1965) was a master of the Turkish ma ka m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge about Cordova’s early … from Izmir, moved to Istanbul to become the ḥ azzan (cantor) of the Italian synagogue, a position he held until …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… 25 … 41041 … Back in 2008 we dedicated our Song of the Month to the popular piyyut “Purim, Purim, Purim lanu” (“Purim, … in Amsterdam around 1614, invited to serve as hazzan (cantor) of the new, flourishing Portuguese Jewish community. …
Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… This Song of the Month for Hanukkah, in video lecture format, reveals the fascinating story of the well-known Maoz Tsur . This … … Hazzan, Hazan, Chazzan, Chazzanut, Hazzanim, Hazzanim – Cantors, Cantors – Hazzanim, Cantors … Hanukkah … Chanukkah …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… into several minhagim (“customs” or “traditions”) once the printing press started to produce prayer books in rapidly increasing numbers to satisfy the expanding demand. Many unique liturgical passages, whose … of three verses from Psalm 80 which is recited by the cantor before the reading from the second Torah scroll …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis collection . Middleton WI: A-R … 1920s) and by Josef Spindel (1934). Another recording by cantor Ephraim Di-Zahav (at 1:24) was broadcast for many …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… 2 … 712 … “Bore ‘ad ana” (“Creator until when?”) is one of the most ubiquitous qinot (dirges) in the order of prayers for the Ninth of Av among the Sephardic … by Mr. Hocha, here are some remarks about this notable cantor. Nehemiah Hocha, cantor and scholar, was born in …