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Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… – On to Our Land.” Binder indicates that this is a Yemenite melody and gives no attribution for the text. In … L’artzeinu was one of those few songs able to claim a central, canonical place in the Zionist musical pantheon. … loud and features ecstatic dances, songs and bonfires. A central musical figure at these Meron festivities for some …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… game commonly performed among the Jewish communities of central and southern Yemen. It is sung at the end of the bridal h enna ceremony … observance in each specific community. For example, in central Yemen cities such as the capital Sana'a the …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… and linguistic leaning of the early Zionist intellectuals Central and Eastern Europe. On the other hand, the … Le-Tziyyon (and all the young intelligentsia of Yehudah [central Israel in the terminology of the early Yishuv]) … Erich von Hornbostel arrived to a remote area of Southern Yemen where he recorded Yemenite Jews. Among the songs he …
The Israeli Mediterranean Style
… the liturgical and para-liturgical musical traditions of Yemenite, Persian, and Moroccan Israeli Jews (i.e., the … composers of the time, almost all raised and educated in Central Europe, Eastern Europe, or Russia, developed the …
Abyadi Ana
… span over an entire day and in some communities such as Yemen even longer. The ceremony is accompanied by singing … [2] The Henna rituals are considered to be among the central events of the Jewish traditional wedding that spans … Hoffman-Halevy, “Stretch Forth Your Hand to the Henna”: Yemenite Music in Israel as Reflected in the Contemporary …
Brakha Tzefira
… was born in Jerusalem in 1910. Her father emmigrated from Yemen in 1887, and settled in the then Yemenite neighborhood of Nahalat Tsvi, in Jerusalem, and … attracted to the songs she heard. The synagogue played a central role in the lives of the families she grew up with, …
Kedusha
… crux of this benediction, and hence its name, Kedusha. The central part of the Kedusha is based on three biblical … was preserved by the Sephardic, Italian, Persian, and Yemenite Nussa h s. It is based on Isaiah 29, 23, and is … spoken by Thy prophets…') Sephardies, Italians, Romanians, Yemenites, and Chassidim use this opening for the Kedusha …
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… to the Sabbath, holidays, and the High Holy Days. The central European Ashkenazim limited it to the Three … Tradition While all of the Jewish communities, from Yemen to Lithuania, developed unique melodies for the … while the congregation recites the response verses. Central and Western Europe The Ashkenazis of Central Europe …
With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen
… The Jews of Yemen possess rich musical traditions, which have always … half a century after the migration of most of the Jews from Yemen to Israel. Their special contribution to the … … With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen … Avner Bahat … Naomi Bahat-Ratzon …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… in 1492. Moreover, nocturnal study and prayer, which are central components of the Baqqashot, were customary in Spain … considered to be particularly original. One example of the central role of Arabic music in the music of the Jews of … (such as the Persian, Bukharian, Iraqi, Kurdish and Yemenite congregations). The final crystallization of the …