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Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… a traditional melody for Shofet kol ha’aretz was already in place and could be transferred to the singing of other … malkenu (fol. 340b), unlike other Ashkenazi sources that place the poem on the first day of Selihot or on Yom Kippur. … It is not only the expressivity and the strong accent placed on words of emotional and imaginative capacity that …
Brakha Tzefira
… but fled from his house at the age of five and was placed with a family in the Bukharan Quarter of Jerusalem. … years, her adopted family left the city, and Brakha was placed with a widow in the Yemin Moshe neighborhood in … on in her life, Brakha employed this technique of text replacement extensively. In 1924, Tzefira was sent to study in …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… head paytan. Here, the congregation only joins at specific places. Usually the main paytan begins the singing, and the … and Dimona. Ashkelon and Ashdod are particularly important places for the practice of Moroccan traditions in the …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… of customs, Minhagei Maharil : “When a circumcision took place on a Fast Day, Maharil used to say Seliḥot , and one … more concretely from an ongoing plague epidemic which took place in Prague in 1680 (Steinschneider 1852–1860, 574, no. … himself a few pages later (383), distinguishing both names as two separate melodies. [26] Written by Salomon …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… changes found in these versions as well as in versions from places such as Cochin (in Kerala, India) caused some … up to four with one being God who makes matches in every place; two are the bride and groom; three are the klezmer …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a sixth to the higher third scale step at exactly the same place, and the descending arpeggio of a subdominant chord at … of birth, exists in the Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names in Yad Vashem. No testimony about this person has … If this is the same individual, we can now locate his place of dwelling (Ludza) alongside a melody transcribed …
Abyadi Ana
… Some of the most complex Henna ceremonies among Jews took place in Morocco where a special repertoire of traditional … story of Zohra El Fassia can be defined as a tragedy of displacement. Her relative anonymity in Israel during the last …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… the reader in search for additional information about names, places and concepts mentioned by the author. When … we should meet. As early as the thirteenth century, our surnames appear together in the register of the Jews of …