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A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… Yemen Shofet kol ha’aretz belongs to the medieval poetic Hebrew genre called pizmon that is characterized by a … of the opening stanza, is the refrain (the same words and music are repeated) and x, the last line of the rest of the … the present-day availability of medieval manuscripts of Hebrew liturgical orders allow for a fundamental revision of …
Assaf Shelleg
… Musicologist Assaf Shelleg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) studies modern and contemporary musics with a particular interest in art music written by … director of the Cherrick Center for Israel Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2021-24), he had served as a …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… ever since the day of the Renaissance Humanists. [1] The Hebrew chanting depends on the text, and is determined by … and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … which are given above or below each word in a printed Hebrew Bible, serve three functions: they indicate the …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… The text draws from poetic formulae common in early Zionist Hebrew poetry. In Zionist songbooks and collections from the … and are only known to experts in the history of modern Hebrew song. Na’aleh L’artzeinu is only dimly remembered by … example of an old Yiddish melody that was reclaimed by Hebrewists in Europe or Palestine. Further exploration has …
David Berger
… the Jewish Theological Seminary before continuing on to the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music for cantorial school where he received cantorial … studied at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Fellowship for …
Moritz Rosenhaupt
… major codifiers of the South German synagogue liturgy in musical notation and yet his name does not appear … in The Chronicle (vol. 58, 1999) of the Klau Library of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati announces the following: … missing. Writings by Rosenhaupt Rosenhaupt translated Hebrew prayers to German and also compiled manuals for the …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… section of the Jacob Michael Collection of Jewish Music at the National Sound Archives of the Israel National … includes therefore the stanza before the last (on the Hebrew letter “shin”), the last one (on the letter “tav”) … present day. Feig sings Kipnis’ ‘Hag Purim, Hag Purim’ in Hebrew and Yiddish, a common practice in American Jewish …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… Coopersmith Hebrew version 1942: … ps://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/attachments/Hebrew%20version%20Coopersmith%201942.jpg Emil Saculet … Hamenagen [1] (1925). The song in both Yiddish and Hebrew (the latter language is important as we shall see … from Goldfarb’s in several widely disseminated American Hebrew-Yiddish songsters published by Harry Coopersmith and …
Marlena Fuerstman
… Marlena Fuerstman served as spiritual leader of Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation and is a member of Jewish Music Research Centre. … Cantor and Researcher … Marlena …
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
… in southwestern Ukraine). This new production of the Jewish Music Research Centre prepared around the centennial of … and translation of all the texts into English, Hebrew and Russian as well as biographical information about … Bukovina, USSR, Israel … Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem … Anthology of Music …