… text for easy online search and mobile viewing. Idelsohn's Hebrew and English biographies, written in the early 1930s, … in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared in Die Chasanim Welt 3, no. 15, (Sh’vat, … beginning of harmony. He acquainted me with the Chazanic literature of Weintraub, Sulzer, Lewandowski and others. He …

… present have generated a rather dense, one-hundred year old literature on the subject. This quest produced speculative … Eliyahu Hacohen, the ultimate connoisseur of the Israeli Hebrew song, who wrote one of the most authoritative studies on Hatikvah ever, notes that a Hebrew translation by Mendel Stern of Die Wacht am Rhein was …

… for holidays and festivals. Graduated cum laude in Literature from the University of Rome in 1931, he pursued … Politeama Theater of Palermo, Sicily. He taught courses in Hebrew liturgical chant in Italy (Rome, Palestrina, Turin, … of the Italian Jewish communities. He transliterated the Hebrew texts of the songs in Latin characters with a very …

… with the elite of Vilna, and he was encouraged to study Hebrew literature and history. After his second marriage Zunser … becoming his most popular song both in the Yiddish and Hebrew versions. Its theme was the joy of returning to plow …

… tradition of turning secular Arabic songs into sacred Hebrew ones. Halevi is certainly not a trained poet but … . This experience resulted in his comand of a wide range of Hebrew formulae that can be assembled to substitute the … text does not shine otherwise as an independent piece of literature. It only makes sense in the context of its …

… with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch directly upon … descendants.  The story’s primary textual rendering in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis XXII:1–19) is somewhat brief, barely … and omitting the character of Sarah altogether. Midrashic literature elaborates on the narrative at length, and it is …

Born in Berlin, Sachs studied piano, music theory and …

… musical interests, and considered the study of music and literature to be a foreign influence. Though Joel's mother … Singing of Israel and its Sources: a Contribution to Hebrew Musicology) , which was published as a book in 1975. …

… klita ), where new Jewish immigrants are housed, taught Hebrew, supported in their first steps in the host society … community (the priests— qessotch in Amharic, qessim in the Hebrew adaptation), in effect dismantling the qessim ’s … 2 outlines and critiques the then-available (rather scant) literature in English on traditional Ethiopian music of the …