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Musical Practices and Instruments in Late Bronze Age Ugarit (Syria)
… during the Late Bronze Age, at the time of New Kingdom Egypt, the Hittite Empire, Kassite Babylonia and the Amorite …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… Sea of Reeds the son of Amram [Moses] dried And made the Egyptian Nile stink. Who was this man Moses who Drew water …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… (the dream that Joseph solved). As during the drought in Egypt, the people of Israel once again look forward to …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… Haggadah , the order of texts recounting the Exodus from Egypt, is read before and after the seder meal. This text …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… the famous violinist Felix Mizrahi, born and educated in Egypt but also a scion to a family of Iraqi Jewish … musicians immigrated from the lands of origin, Iraq and Egypt, to Israel in the early 1950s. In this recording, …
Karev Yom
… 29 (“At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… Balkan countries, Syria, Lebanon, the Land of Israel, and Egypt. H azzanim (cantors) and payytanim passed on these … recording and distributing the music that had developed in Egypt and Syria aided in spreading and implanting the new … Syrian and Eastern Jewish communities, who adopted the new Egyptian arrangements into their piyyut tradition. Like …
Ve-Hi She-’Amda – Piyyut from the Passover Haggadah
… in the Haggadah celebrating the rescue of the slaves from Egypt – the central point of the holiday – which is actually …
The Israeli Mediterranean Style
… by his studies and teaching in Arab countries, Lebanon and Egypt. Finally, Josef Tal and Mordecai Seter were the two …
Arvit
… a prayer which praises God for redeemption from slavery in Egypt. This pattern of three blessings originated in the …