Inventing Jewish Music
https://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/01%20E%20Inventing%20Jewish%20Music%20-%20Phillip%20V%20Bohlman%2033-74%20with%20title%20p.pdf
Notes on Bukharan Music in Israel
https://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/09%20Notes%20on%20Bukharan%20Music%20in%20Israel%20pp%20225-239%20-%20Mark%20Slobin%20incl%20title%20page%20abrevespdf.pdf
Musical Tradition and its Transmitters between Synagogue and Church
https://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/08%20Music%20Tradition%20and%20its%20Transmitters%20between%20Synagogue%20and%20Church%20pp%20163-180%20-%20E%20Werner%20incl%20title%20page.pdf
The Music of Kurdistan Jews - a Synopsis of their Musical Styles
https://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/04%20The%20Music%20of%20the%20Kurdistan%20Jews%20-%20a%20synopsis%20of%20their%20Musical%20styles%20pp%2059-72%20-%20E%20Gerson-Kiwi%20incl%20title%20page.pdf
The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer
Some scientific enterprises, like good wine, mature over a long period of time. The present publication, dating back to 1986, is the result of a similarly deliberate and painstaking process, and in view of the fact that it was undertaken with French colleagues, the wine metaphor is a most natural fit.
Material Type:
Recordings
Year:
2018
Tree of Life
Directed by John Ferno
This film, narrated by Laurence Olivier, contains performances of both secular and religious music in Israel. This includes praying at the Western Wall, a Jazz version of the Song of Songs, an Upsherin (the ceremonial first haircut when a boy is three years old) ceremony with dancing and singing, and lighting of Hannuka candles in different traditions such as, Persian, Yemenite, and secular.Material Type:
Films
Year:
1971
Sabbath Bride
Directed by Naomi Gryn
Sabbath bride is a documentary film about Sabbath in London. It features prayers and music along with interviews and Sabbath food.
Excerpt from film that features singing of different pieces:
Additional excerpt from the film about Havdala:
Material Type:
Films
Year:
1987
On the Study of the Musical Traditions of the Jews in Afghanistan
The musical traditions of the Jews of Lybia
Music in the Social and Religious Life of Antiquity
Author
A study of the role of music among the civilizations of the ancient Near East.
Material Type:
Books
Year:
1974
- A Polka Mazurka
- Niggun of the Meggid of Mezerich From the album, "The Hasidic Niggun as Sung by the Hasidim." This dance niggun is the seventh and last in a series of niggunim sung by Bratslav Hasidim as they dance after the Shabbat evening service on Friday night. Some have attributed the niggun to R. Dov Ber, the meggid of Mezerich.
- Kol B'ru'ei (Padua, Italy) From the album, "Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961)." The poem depicts "all creatures" singing and praising the unity of God, and was recited in the Italian rite during the daily morning prayer. This melody was sung only on Rosh Hashanah (New Year) in the Italian tradition of Padua.
- Yigdal From the album, "Judeo-Carribean Currents, Music of the Mikve Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Curaçao," performed by Gideon Zelermyer. The Yigdal is part of the ceremonial section of the liturgical order of Shabbat and the Holy Days in the Curaçao synagogue. It is one of the ending hymns of the service.
- Eres Chiquita y Bonita From the album, "Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle," sung by Alicia Bendayan from Tetuan. This is a song about courtship, related to the Jewish rituals that mark the events of the life cycle.
- Sweet Shalt Be My Chant From the album, "Kulmus Hanefesh," performed by Yair Harel on voice and tar, and Matti Kovler on voice and piano. A sacred hymn attributed to Rabbi Yehuda ha-Chasid, this is a Chabad tune with a near-Eastern arrangement.
- Lyr II From the album, "The Music of the Mountain Jews." Lyr is a genre found among all Turkish peoples, consisting of long, complex compositions usually comprised of three parts.
- Gilu ha-Galilim (Rejoice Galileans) From the album, "Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946)." This is a Second Aliyah (1904-1914) song which became an integral part of the historical repertoire of Hebrew song. Both native-born and newly arrived pioneers sang this song in all circumstances.
- Saperi Tama From the album, "With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen." This is a girdle poem by Se'adia ben Amram. Saperi Tama is sung to many melodies and is one of Yemenite Jewry's most common poems.