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Inventing Jewish Music
… It was 1848, and the music of central Europe's Jewish communities was in a state of chaos. In the cities, … sense of isolation and abandonment. The very nature of Jewish identity was being questioned from within Jewish … with consideration of the entire synagogue life”]. … Traditions … 23449 … Jewish music … Jewish … Jewish …
The Priestly Blessing in the Ashkenazi Synagogue: Ritual and Chant
… come from under the prayer shawls of the kohanim . All Jewish communities from Yemen to Lithuania cherish special … and they are all worthy of research. Yet the Ashkenazi traditions have developed the richest variety of chants, … … Ashkenazi … Ashkenazim … Ashkenazi prayer … Blessings … Traditions … Chant … Ritual … The Priestly Blessing in the …
Traces of Jewish Musicians in the Writings of Lomazzo
… The discovery of traces of Jewish musicians in Lomazzo’s Trattato dell’Arte Della … Pittura would no doubt be of interest to historians of Jewish music as well as to art historians in general. … writers of the sixteenth century but also the oral traditions – stories, explanations, conceptions – that …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of … single-handedly maintained and kept alive the Moroccan Jewish singing tradition in Israel against all odds. He was … his rabbinical education. He perpetuated not only singing traditions but very specific liturgical practices from …
The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer
… of Operation Moses when a significant proportion of the Jewish population of Ethiopia was flown from the Sudan to … in Jerusalem, Machon Meir, to familiarize them with general Jewish history and Orthodox religious law ( Halacha ) that … University of Jerusalem … AMTI 0114 … Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel … 26 … 9626 … 9431 … 23444 … 23445 … …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… destructive in scale, the fire came as a great blow to the Jewish community living in Saloniki at the time. The fire … tens of thousands of Jews homeless and consumed most of the Jewish neighborhood in the old city, including areas of … Greeks, and Muslims, each developing their own cultural traditions and speaking in their own languages.” 5 The Jews …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… of the Land of Israel (1882-1946) . … Not all traditional Jewish holiday songs have survived in their original … Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini, which used to be performed in Jewish communities on Purim, especially in Germany, is one … Early Songs of the Land of Israel (Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel 12). In his liner notes Mazor writes: …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… wars and vicissitudes in Spain that greatly affected the Jewish communities there. In 1140 Ibn Ezra immigrated to … poetry, research on Hebrew grammar, writings concerning Jewish thought (including philosophy and various scientific … is possible to distinguish between two branches of melodic traditions associated with this piyyut : the Ottoman/Iraqi …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a performing stage, even though major … Until immigration to Israel, in the non-Ashkenazi Jewish traditions, as in the Ashkenazi ones, the Four Questions (as …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … also attested in several medieval manuscripts of the Roman Jewish rite available at the IMHM catalogue. The persistence … preceding and during the High Holidays. Ashkenazi musical traditions of Shofet kol ha'aretz Our previous feature on …