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A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… And grant them life, our King and Lord. Let Thou the mark of life appear Upon their brow from year to year, As … (against the Thirteen Attributes of God), then open the Ark and say the pizmon ‘Shofet kol ha’aretz’ and one should not close the Ark after ending Shofet…” In the same prayer book of 1826, …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… word ta’am (plural te’amim ) refers to a Biblical accent mark, but it also means “flavor,” “taste,” and “sense,” or … but the focal pitches and collections within the scale are markedly different. Torah cantillation may be heard as … in comparison, festive megillot trope may be heard as marked and special. The focus on the musical aspect of …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… attribution for the text. In many ways, this song is unremarkable. It stays firmly within a normative minor key and … remains an argument from silence, but it is nonetheless remarkable. [10] I have most frequently heard it used as a …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… has an author, the Vilna-born Yiddish poet Mordekhai (Mark) Rivesman (1868-1924, left) and is attributed to a …
Vivat
… “Vivat [also vivad]. long live! hurrah! yikhi!” Harkavi 1928, p. 205 . “In the first [of four] week[s] …
Or Haganuz
… by the Ron Shulamit Conservatory in Jerusalem, and marks the 50th anniversary of the JMRC. It is the best gift …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… beautiful, [11] while in the villages the women's skin was darker, a feature considered to be sign of beauty in turn. … this theme as well; the urban woman symbolizes the stark reality to which the man finds himself, while the rural …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its practice at ceremonies … groups whose last moment of global solidarity was marked by the attempt to annihilate that very same community … (“Our Hope”) in Imber’s inaugural collection of poems Barkai (‘Morning Star,’ Jerusalem, 1886), its superscription …
Karev Yom
… is proper for the JMRC to celebrate the memory of this remarkable figure, whose merits include, among many artistic … and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after World War II. The Song of the Month is dedicated … as of the incipient Israeli music scene. Bikel’s death was marked in Israel by reserved and mostly short factual …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… Writings of Moshe Beregovski , edited and translated by Mark Slobin. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. Brounoff, … Writings of Moshe Beregovski , edited and translated by Mark Slobin. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. Rubin, …