… and Albert. Their descendants spread to the Americas and to Israel.             Haim was a quintessential Sephardi … a local Jewish choir called  Maftirim  used to perform its ancient repertoire of Ottoman Hebrew music on Sabbath … being mentioned as a hero in a folktale (no. 5324 at the Israel Folktale Archive, University of Haifa, recorded in …

… essentially immobile and inaccessible to many, especially Israeli Jews; second, the famous record’s copy on my mobile … to being synthesized with the ideological precepts of the Israeli-Palestinian/Arab conflict. Although aimed at … the dissociation of those living in the modern state of Israel from the historical landscape from which the famous …

… of them has the merit to praise God. It is a text based on ancient and universal poetic schemes centered on debates, … the early eighteenth century onwards. The most complete and ancient versions appear in the important piyutim manuscripts … titled Ne’im zemirot , dated in 1702; National Library of Israel Ms. 413, titled Pizmonim , shirot vetishbaḥot , dated …

… (2015), who focuses on the “contemplative” nigunim of the Israeli Habad Hasidim, and combines musicological … in an extensive study of a different sub-genre—the Israeli Hasidic dance-nigunim repertoire—by Yaakov Mazor, … from approximately 400 documented through fieldwork in Israel, the authors make three choices that distinguish this …

… University in January 2009. I thank Alexander Frenkel, Israel Bartal, Edwin Seroussi, and Jascha Nemtsov for their … Right to Left? Avraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Invention of Israeli Music,” Jewish Quarterly Review 100:3 (Summer 2010), …

… National Sound Archives (NSA) at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem has yielded only one recording. [32]  It … 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 …

… for the dance of the bridegroom and the bride.” [Jerusalem, Israel, 1966-1986]. Mazor and Taube 1994, pp. 164, 175, 195, … custom, which ought and must, just as with other ancient wedding ceremonies, become abolished.” Rivkind 1962, …

… with the coming of Elijah the Prophet and the redemption of Israel from its enemies. The paytan (poet) pictorially … 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. …