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Abyadi Ana
… Abyadi Ana, a traditional Moroccan song for the Henna ( Arabic ( حِنَّاء ceremony is our song … by expert women. Nowadays, grooms’ hands are also painted with henna. In the past this elaborate ritual span over an … in the Contemporary Henna Ceremony . Ph.D. diss., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2011. (In Hebrew, English …
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… by Slavic languages. Both the language and the folksongs, like many other elements of Ashkenazi culture, are … morphology, and prosody of Yiddish combine German and Hebrew components, and in Eastern Europe also elements of … to the 'high' culture of canonical texts in Hebrew along with an affinity to oral folk culture - as well as seeing …
‘I’m Sorry, It’s Yom Kippur’: Atonement through Punk (and Traditional Jewish Music)
… Our song for this month is I'm sorry, It’s Yom Kippur by the … bodies at all. Some transgender people identify wholly with one preferred gender category (male or female) that is … the song. Here are some of the opening lines of the Hebrew prayer: For the sin which we have committed against …
In the Fiddler's House: Itzhak Perlman
… as The Klezmatics and The Klezmer Conservatory Band. The songs that are performed are listed as follows: 1. Mayn … Gelebt 6. Ikh bin a boarder bay mayn vayb (I am a boarder with my wife) 7. Wedding Dance 8. Dovidl bazetst di Kale 9. … Bulgar') 11. Abi Gezunt 12. Ahavas Oylom 13. Reyzele 14. Hebrew Melody Op. 33 15. Doc's Wedding 16. Simkes-Toyre 17. …
Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… Over the course of these many centuries, liturgical chants within the synagogue and outside of it have served as an … in the Karaite Musical Tradition The liturgical Karaite song is sung in a responsorial manner, whereas … communities also have secular songs, which are not sung in Hebrew. These include songs in different dialects, such as …
Aharon Amram
… to Islam. In his youth, Aharon Amram studied torah studies with Sana'a's best teachers, while also learning Math, History and Hebrew in a Jewish school. In 1950, as part of 'Operation … he read weekly torah portions, recited Haftaras, and sang songs of rabbi Shalom Shabazi and some Israeli songs that he …
Brakha Tzefira
… After the death of her parents, she was brought to live with her uncle in Jerusalem, but fled from his house at the … one neighborhhod to the next, Brakha was attracted to the songs she heard. The synagogue played a central role in the … to challenge themselves by attempting to suit the words of Hebrew poems, especially those of Bialik, to the Arabic or …
Elohim Eshala
… Folkways release by the Israeli singer Geula Gill “Yemenite songs and other Israeli folk songs.” Gill (b. 1932 in Tel … in America. This seminal recording was done when Gill, with her husband then, the notorious composer and arranger … Yemenite track in this record, the rest being mostly Hebrew covers from the Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) repertoire and …
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… the Priestly Blessing, is arguably the most impressive text within the Synagogue tradition. Sources of the Priestly … figure in which each of their hands makes the shape of the Hebrew letter Shin ( ש ) , and bring their hands together so … Piyutim, others were adopted from secular Jewish songs, as well as from non-Jewish sources. Some of these …
Hora
… dance melodies in the Rumanian and Moldavian folklore: slow with triple meter, and fast with duple meter. The 'Hora' has … example no.2 ). The Hora dance in Israel In the renewing Hebrew language, the term became a synonym to an Israeli … words were written for these tunes (such as the famous song Hava Nagila and Hora H adera 4 ) 5 . The Zionists …