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Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… liturgical music of American Reform Judaism and his work on Biblical cantillation, he was also one of the most important …
Karev Yom
… point of view of poetry, the reliance on verses from the Biblical ‘Song of Songs’ (three songs plus the pseudo-Song …
Elohim Eshala
… in Jerusalem (586 CE). The Zionist nostalgia for idealized Biblical times when the ancient Hebrews worked their land …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… set to the melody of the American song. The setting of this Biblical Hebrew verse to this song was documented in the …
Hay ram galeh
… whereas phrases from extant piyyutim or fragments of Biblical verses are interwoven into a new work on the basis …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… number is given a symbolic meaning that is connected to Biblical figures, concepts, and objects related to Judaism: …
Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… as the zejel pattern). The “x” verses consist of short biblical quotations all rhyming on “anu” and thus recalling …
4. Las Tablas de la Ley (The Tablets of the Law)
… and final line of all the stanzas is a quotation from a biblical verse that ends with the word Anojí (“I”, the first …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… earthly topic, but do so with concealed and semi-overt Biblical references. The earliest appearance of Kikhlot … burst into watery tears. After comparing his host to the Biblical Moses (who had, according to the poet, issues with … detailed commentary of the text of this song and its Biblical and Talmudic sources is highly recommended. See, …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… of students in Jerusalem. His prodigious mastering of the Biblical text led him to secure second place in the 1962 …