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With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen
… which have always been of interest to scholars of Jewish music, just as their unique cultural history has attracted the attention of Jewish scholars from an early stage. Interest in this … … 2006 … Yemen … Diwan … Israel … immgiration … yemenite singing … Yemenite … Communities … Yemenite community … …
Hayrana Laih
… is popular in the Arab world, but also has connections to Jewish musical contexts and musicians. The lyrics of Hayrana … great Umm Kalthoum for the primacy of the female Egyptian singing stage. Layla Mourad, was born in Cairo as Lilyan … she retired from acting and several years later also from singing. [7] Until her death in 1995, Mourad made rare …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… of digital resources have enhanced the study of the Jewish liturgy helping us to make more accurate assessments … we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … was already in place and could be transferred to the singing of other texts. The thirteen to fourteen century …
Hanukkah Blessings
… Singing the Hanukkah Blessings while lighting the candles is a well-established Jewish family practice that is usually performed by the head … the first two bars of the Maoz Tzur melody. Scholars of Jewish music from each generation, such as Eduard Birnbaum, …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… Qaddish in the Yom Kippur Minhah service or as a pizmon for singing between Musaf and Minhah of Yom Kippur. The opening … Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old traditional Ottoman Jewish community ruled by rabbinical authority was shattered … French), to liberal trends in Judaism (especially to Jewish nationalism or Zionism) and to subversive political …
Zemirot
… and leaned heavily on Liturgical modes and formulae. 2. Non-Jewish folk tunes served as the music for the Zemirot texts; … Bohemian, Hungarian and Polish secular songs and dances. 3. Jewish melodies either newly composed or already in use in … which gained popularity in Jewish homes worldwide. The singing at home took place around the table with the …
Mitsve Tants
… to eastern Europe in the 18th century at the latest. In Jewish musar literature and minhagim books of the 17th and … groom is invited, the announcer begins with the cantorial singing of 'Akavia Ben Mahalalel Omer', taken from funeral …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish communities. It consists of gatherings that occur … The cabbalists of Safed ascribed prime importance to the singing of piyyutim. Their repertoire included poems written … which up to then had been predominant in the Sephardi Jewish liturgy and piyyut singing in the Middle East, went …
Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle
… . … 73 … 73 … 2 … 7 … 38990 … 1 CD … Jerusalem … Morocco … Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of … … Ethnography … Field recordings … Ethnomusicology … Women singing … Judeo-Spanish - Ladino … Sephardi … Susana …
Vocal and Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition
… three unrelated groups show different kinds of polyphonic singing. … 105 … 105 … 2 … Yuval Studies of The Jewish Music Research Centre … Yuval Studies of The Jewish Music Research Centre … 38289 … 169-193 … Jerusalem … …