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Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… contributed to the early dissemination in Western Sephardic and North African Jewish communities of the new style of … old folksong. Zaragoza is certainly not alone. Recordings presenting “Pesah a la mano” without attribution to its … processes of creativity did not take place in a more remote past as well. On the other hand, the rapid dissemination of …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… In his pioneer publication Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), … continued to be sung with a distinctive melody up until the present time. The song probably made its inroads into … a new generation via the development of an awareness of the past historical suffering endured by the Jewish people. …
Clara Wenz
… specializing in Middle Eastern music, music and sound studies, political ethnography, anthropology of … Middle East. Her current research project chronicles the present and past lives of a Syrian-Jewish musical record which was …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… Introduction It is November 15, 2016 and I am sitting in a car, driving on a mountain road that … inspiration, he was ironically greeted by the musicians present as the “thief of songs”, whence he challenged them … that the regime has directed against the country’s Jewish past (Shannon 2015; Stora 1997). Referring to these memories …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… song “Piramidn.” The song, whose first line is “In dem land fun piramidn,” appears in Samuel Bugatch’s Songs of Our … “Piramidn” was one of the songs on this album that represented the Yiddish schools and summer camps that, by the mid-1970s, were becoming “a thing of the past.” Its performance by a child soprano in this recording …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch directly upon the … diaspora center that emerged during the tenth century in present day southern Germany and northern France. However, … of Yudisher shtam (including two seventeenth century pastiches of it) [23] contain any indication of its …
Notes on Bukharan Music in Israel
… ' … The present paper describes the findings of a six-week research … 1971. Having specialized in the music of Afghanistan and Soviet Central Asia, I was attracted by the possibility … the data collected nevertheless afford a glimpse into the past and present state of Bukharan music among Central Asian …
Three Musical Ceremonies for Hôšanā Rabbah in the Jewish Community of Casale Monferrato (1732, 1733, 1735) (Hebrew)
… contained two parts; part A: a series of instrumental and liturgical pieces, and part B: a cantata or a … whose libretto was written especially for the occasion. The present article describes in detail the above mentioned … structure of the scores, since these may be regarded as pasticcio combinations. … Score, Music scores … Cantata … …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… Zakhor, March 16, 2019, after four years of severe illness and pain. No other date could have been more symbolic for … tradition, of which Rabbi Atiyah was one of its main representatives of the past generation. For over four decades, a deep personal and …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… morning service for Rosh Hashanah in the Sephardic liturgy and appears also, since at least the early eighteenth … to Bar Abun is not at all farfetched. Indeed the present-day availability of medieval manuscripts of Hebrew … the printing press. Among the novelties that emerged in the past decade or two are the discoveries of the “Italian …