This is a short extract of the article “Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan…

… custom, which ought and must, just as with other ancient wedding ceremonies, become abolished.” Rivkind 1962, …

In 1958, on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk…

The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent passing of Cheikh…

… conventions. The transcribers’ desire to imbue the ancient Jewish melody with contemporary decorum led them to … century. The fact that we have the transcription of such an ancient melody (even if through late and limited … of her son’s fate. Shalom Spiegel (1967) revealed an ancient version of the story claiming that Isaac was in fact …

Tish-nigunim in the Post-vernacular Era This study aims to trace the unique…

… melodies and textual variations.   Text Sources The text is ancient and appears in a Cairo Geniza manuscript (T-S … ha-navi havenah' . [4] It is worth noting that these ancient sources do not explicitly attribute the piyyut to R. … Ottoman/Iraqi Melody   This Ottoman/Iraqi melody is likely ancient. It was recorded by Jewish artists from the East in …

Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics:…