(146 results found)
Seliha-Selihot
… up to Yom Kippur, and these differ among the various Jewish communities. The Ashkenazi communities begin … month (Yemenites recite it for half of the month). 'Each Jewish community developed a specific mode of Selihot and … prayer. Different Selihot orders and Siftei Renanot Most Jewish communities have their own compilations of Selihot …

Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin (Maharil)
… 'Bi'urim' to Yoreh De'ah, is extant in manuscript. Source: Jewish Encyclopedia. … Rabbi and teacher of Mayence, cantor …
Israel Goldfarb
… in music, Israel went to study for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA). As a … a prominent figure in the Society for the Advancement of Jewish Music, he put much effort in promoting the … the Bureau of Education in New York , cooperated to advance Jewish musical education. Together they published songsters …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the … Melngailis collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics makes public a forgotten … Karnes took upon himself the daunting task of editing the Jewish items found in two notebooks from Melngailis’s …

Ashkenazic and Italian Liturgy
… also presents a feature that is altogether unique in the Jewish world, since the melodic rendition of the t’amim is … on the system of Ashkenazi liturgical music. Boaz Tarsi, Jewish Theological Seminary of America The primary issues – …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … as a scholar is still a major gap in the historiography of Jewish music. Born in Myslowitz, Upper Silesia, then part of … was concealed in a massive array of texts and musical practices that until his time, he claimed, were studied in a …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… The collection of historical Jewish field recordings at the Vernadsky National Library of … cycle events recorded in 1913 in Ottoman Palestine from Jewish singers belonging to Middle Eastern communities … of these fragments. Lurie’s recordings reflect musical practices of Jews from the Ottoman provinces of Greater …
Andalusian Nuba
… Andalusian tradition that were only preserved through the Jewish traditions. It is also important to note that … scale during the performance. The most common Nubat in the Jewish tradition are the Nubat of the Moroccan Tradition … within the whole. The Andalusian Music within the Jewish Piyyut tradition of North Africa The Andalusian Nuba …
Israel Adler
… Institut de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and musical studies. During his thirteen-year sojourn … on the diffusion of art music in certain Western European Jewish communities prior to the 19th century, published a … previous paradigms in the study of music of early modern Jewish communities. In 1963, Adler returned to Israel when …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… , Idelsohn projected into this text his own vision of Jewish history and destiny as well as his take on prophecy … Turgeman A sad rumor arrived that the founder of the Jewish theater in Yiddish, Abraham Goldfaden has died. And while all Jewish newspapers and even some non-Jewish newspapers …