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Coplas - Complas
… A unique genre in the Sephardic Jews musical tradition.. Strophic poems, with … impact of historical, social and political events on the Sephardic communities. Coplas are sung with a strophic …
Romanza - Romance
… A unique genre in the Sephardic Jews musical tradition. A narrative poem, a … slight variations, throughout the text. The themes of the Sephardic romances reflect the Hispanic heritage, carried …
Unataneh Tokef
… example is that the song's melody has both Ashkenazi and Sephardic influences and that Albalak should imagine himself …
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… of the city. The Synagogue's History In 1665, the Sephardic community decided to build a beautiful new … The building's spacious sanctuary is decorated in a typical Sephardic-Iberian style, the wooden ark and bimah located at … Haim library, which holds rare and valuable collections of Sephardic manuscripts. The Synagogue's Praying Style (Nusah) …
Fiestaremos! Judy Frankel and the Sephardic Music Tradition
… figure in the preservation and the performance of the Sephardic folksong. More information can be found at the … Judeo-Spanish - Ladino … Fiestaremos! Judy Frankel and the Sephardic Music Tradition …
Brakha Tzefira
… neighborhood in Jerusalem, where most of the residents were Sephardic Jews from Salonika. Tzefira had unpleasant … the liturgy, absorbing piyutim and more. Like many girls of Sephardic families, Tzefira attended a school in the old … Hebrew poems, especially those of Bialik, to the Arabic or Sephardic melodies that they liked. Later on in her life, …
Kedusha
… hand of thy prophet…'). This opening was preserved by the Sephardic, Italian, Persian, and Yemenite Nussa h s. It is … li-Shelomo (1622). He wrote the music according to the Sephardic Kedusha (see opening No. 2), and it was later …
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… Yom Kippur. All of the Jewish communities in Israel, both Sephardic and Ashkenazi, follow this tradition. In the … is recited changes from place to place. The western Sephardic communities limited the blessing to the Sabbath, …
A Bookshelf On Top of the Sky: 12 Stories about John Zorn
… and different Jewish musical traditions such as Klezmer and Sephardic music. Zorn creates here what he calls radical …
Seliha-Selihot
… Heshbon Nefesh [self-reflection] on the passing year. Sephardic and oriental Jews maintain the tradition of … [3] The Selihot service is performed at night. In the Sephardic communities, the Selihot are recited early in the … compilations. The main difference between the Ashkenazi and Sephardic Selihot orders are that the Ashkenazim sing …