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Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… lemishmeret shalom' (Mighty [God] on High, who dwells by power. You are Peace and your name is Peace. May it be your … the words ' Yishar koa h .' The Simple Reading The musical capabilities of the priests are very diverse and … on the priest. Some of the priests have received no musical training. In fact, many were not even trained to …

סוחר-צמר-פילוסוף יהודי במוצול דן במוסיקה בהשראת צפייה בריקוד צוּפי
… Avenary, 'A Geniza Find of Saadya's Psalm-Preface and its Musical Aspects,' Hebrew Union College Annual 39 (1968): … Henry George Farmer, Sa'adyah Gaon on the Influence of Music (London: Arthur Probsthain, 1943) [55] ראו, Israel … Neoplatonic or Sufi origin), and as a healing and balancing power of the physical and spiritual temperament; and 3) the …
Mordekhai Zeira
… born in Kiev, Russia, in 1905. Although he was born to a musical family, his musical education consisted mostly of a handful of piano … to Pin h has Rotenberg, the founder of the Naharayim power station. Zeira collaborated with several poets, with …
Chasidic in America
… Olshanetsky , the composer who is credited with the music of The Cantor’s Son . This virtuosic, wordless song … between the Eastern European Jewish and the Afro-American musical realms. Indeed Hankus Netsky, klezmer scholar and … song, with its nods through the medium of American popular music to both the Hasidic niggun and the Eastern European …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… men's songs (including liturgical and para-liturgical music). The repertoire also deals with themes that reflect … theme, found in the recording’s fourth verse, is the power dynamics between urban and rural Jewish women in … mere fact that these issues are a topic of song proves the power of music to create an alternative, feminine discourse …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali Herz Imber’s poem … quotidian and unexceptional that it could become such a powerful emblem of nationalism.” [26] Bohlman suggests then … century in Palestine and throughout the Jewish world. The powerful Histadrut (Worker’s Union in Palestine) utilized …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… in the Jewish past. A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern Jewish musical research. Idelsohn’s life traversed several … of Jewish scholarship, and the creation of modern Jewish music as a whole. He left behind a legacy of iconic books …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take on assumed black music tastes) on which all of Berlin’s early works centred. … the consuming classes, film, and the radio, middle-men in music with a passion for selling like Berlin could also …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared … Rabinovitz and he took upon himself to teach me the music theory and voice training. Yiska’s memoire: [3a] He … my speech was taken from me, although after a while the power of speech returned, but only off and on. Also my right …