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El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… day, in the afternoon), was written in the aftermath of the Great Fire of Saloniki, which occurred on August 18, 1917. Especially destructive in scale, the fire came as a great blow to the Jewish community living in Saloniki at the … Nazis (1943). For over four-hundred years leading up to the Great Fire, Saloniki stood as a major hub of Jewish cultural …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… out in an acrostic; the poem was formerly attributed to the great Spanish-Jewish poet Solomon ibn Gabirol (1020-1057). … . The title of this poem reads “On Moshe Ha-kilai who ate a great number of bugs and Ibn Gabirol,” an obvious reference …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… to Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra, considered onle of the last great poets of the Spanish 'Golden Age' of Hebrew poetry. … this period there were wars and vicissitudes in Spain that greatly affected the Jewish communities there. In 1140 Ibn …
Haggai Ben-Shammai
… Haggai and Bitya have four children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Ben-Shammai studied at the Hebrew …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… the correlation between melody and text structures in greater detail. The principle of recursive dichotomy, which … of the text in this verse: once the city [of Jerusalem] was great and abundant, now it is lonely and abandoned. The … Haftarah Chanting . New York: Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York. …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… rejoicing, refers to the coming of the Messiah. Here, the great day of joy is the day on which we “go up” to our … around 1987 from Adrienne Cooper (1946-2011), one of the great Yiddish singers of the past few decades. Cooper, says …
Moritz Rosenhaupt
… the husband of Henriette Sulzer (1808-1889), sister of the great cantor Salomon Sulzer from Vienna. Other uncles were … theory and counterpoint. In 1881 Rosenhaupt succeeded the great cantor and theoretician Josef Singer, who had been called to Vienna, to cantor at the prestigious Great Synagogue of Nuremberg. Works by Rosenhaupt Rosenhaupt …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… Israel. In Rishon le-Tziyyon they used to sing then with great enthusiasm the songs ‘Mishmar ha-yarden’, ‘Hashofar’, … perceived in this song their own history, and sang it with great pride [here the song is quoted] As one can see, this … With a beautiful melody they used to sing the songs with great enthusiasm, the adults sang, the children sang. And if …
Karev Yom
… cantor Shlomo Ravitz, at that time the chief cantor of the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv. The music provided by Ravitz …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… songs… most of the songs and prayers were written by the great composer Rabbi Israel Najara…” At the end of the 19 th … Ahmed, Riad al-Sonbati, Mohammed Abdel Wahab, and others. A great portion of the melodies were recently adopted from …