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Brakha Tzefira
… neighborhood in Jerusalem, where most of the residents were Sephardic Jews from Salonika. Tzefira had unpleasant … one neighborhhod to the next, Brakha was attracted to the songs she heard. The synagogue played a central role in the … the liturgy, absorbing piyutim and more. Like many girls of Sephardic families, Tzefira attended a school in the old …
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, … Piyutim, others were adopted from secular Jewish songs, as well as from non-Jewish sources. Some of these …
A Bookshelf On Top of the Sky: 12 Stories about John Zorn
… musical expression. He often fuses these elements into one song creating an idiosyncratic style of polystylistic … 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 … Lehanim , each of which is adapted to various different songs. For further reading about Siftei Renanot , see here . …
Kabalat Shabat
… Psalms 92-93 (which opens with the words: 'A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day'). [2] The second chapter of the Mishna's Shabbat's tractate 'Bameh Madlikin' (in the Sephardic Nussach, instead of 'Bameh Madlikin,' 'Kegavna' … that begin the Kabalat Shabat with the reciting ofthe Song of Songs. In modern day Israel, the ritual of Kabalat …
Hay ram galeh
… East for many centuries. The zenith of this practice among Sephardic and Oriental Jews and the model for subsequent … . H ay Ram Galeh is a contrafactum of the modern Egyptian song Hayrana Laih by Daoud Hosni that featured in our … an important role in the consolidation of the so-called Sephardic-Jerusalemite liturgical style. This style merges …
Bin Tavinu Liqnot Bina Ha'azinu
… of writing new piyyutim according to models of existing songs, and turned it into a method. As a result, he also … findings from the research of the oral tradition of the Sephardic Jews of the Eastern Mediterranean. Afterwards, the … versions of this song in Ladino have survived among the Sephardic Jews, but only one, originating in Bulgaria, …
Ner Haviv, Ner Na'eh
… a Hanukkah celebration, Jerusalem 2001 Transcription of the song … 57 … 738 … Jerusalem … This song of the month was … back in 2009. In 1953, Abraham Abuganim (1908-2002), a Sephardic cantor, singer and 'ud player from Jerusalem, … scale is well-suited to Hannukkah, because in the Jerusalem Sephardic tradition this scale is considered to have an air …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… Recorder: Avigdor Herzog, performer: Yitzhak Shnerb. … Sephardic tradition. Performer: Aaron Najari. NSA CD7182. … piece of the morning service for Rosh Hashanah in the Sephardic liturgy and appears also in the Yemenite rite … rite. As the High Holy Days season arrives, we dedicate the Song of the Month to some rare recordings of the Ashkenazi …
Hanukkah Blessings
… contexts, special musical settings were arranged. Our Song of the Month includes a late 19th century choral … wrote operas, four symphonies, and a number of choruses and songs. In 1858 he received the prestigious “Grand Prix de … of the Consistoire regardless of the ethnic background (Sephardic or Ashkenazi) of its members or their religious …