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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 …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Edith Gerson-Kiwi (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and … Leipzig, Heidelberg, Freiburg i. Br. and Paris. When the National Socialists prevented the publication of her … of Yaakov Huri in the Gerson-Kiwi Collection Iraqi-born cantor, Yaakov Huri was documented by Edith Gerson-Kiwi as …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… … 714 … In his pioneer publication Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new bar in the musicological study of the piyyut . His insights on a … liturgical melodies in the modern era. Gershon Efros in his Cantorial Anthology (vol. V, p. 54) replicates Sulzer’s …
Ben-Zion (Yisrael Noach) Kapov-Kagan
… of synagogue choirs, obtaining his first paid position at the age of 26 at the Rostov-on-Don synagogue. Later he enjoyed a position at … a period of time as president of the Jewish Ministers and Cantors Association. Kapov-Kagan was well renowned for his …
Stefanie Mockert
… from Humboldt University, Berlin, is a researcher at the Hebrew University's Jewish Music Research Centré. Her studies focus on the liturgical music of Southern German Jews, bringing in an … currently writing her dissertation, provisionally titled “Cantor Emanuel Kirschner (1857-1938) - A Biographical …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… in a car, driving on a mountain road that winds down along the Lebanese coastline, overlooking the Mediterranean seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a … of the above-mentioned repertoires. [3] Moreover, synagogue cantors, ḥazzanim, often tended to structure new …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… On March 15, 1899, the distinguished scholar, cantor, composer and avid manuscript collector Eduard … in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , an insert of the Berlin-based periodical Die jüdische Presse . Birnbaum …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… Our song of the month concerns a Sephardic song commonly sung on the Passover and Shavuot holidays, which is derived from a … be integrated into the liturgy upon the discretion of the cantor. The liturgical function and melody of the majority …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… songs for Passover offers us a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness … Archive. … Pesach … Passover … 22548 … Passover … American cantors … Jewish music … Pesach … In The Land Of The …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch directly upon the biblical story, while … melodies, first on separate music sheets and then in cantorial compendia (Goldberg 2002). We have located in …