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Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… in the contemporary practice of the descendants of Aleppo Jews in Jerusalem (see example 2). Example 1: "Maq’helot … melodies [“neginot”] from the Oriental Jews (such as Yemenites, Maghrebis, and Persians, and more) with the … evening), July 19 session he recorded a group of unnamed Yemenite Jews and Chaim ben Shlomo of Baghdad (4 pieces) and …
Moshe Cordova
… Europeans) since at least the late 1910s. It was founded by Jews of Italian origin who had broken away from the main … di Constantinopoli (Community of Foreign Jews of the Spanish-Portuguese Rite of Istanbul). Their … cantor Refael Yair Elnadav (1921-2012). Elnadav, half Yemenite and half Sephardic, became the caretaker of …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… from minority communities which inhabited Latvia, namely, Jews, Roma, Russians, Germans, Lithuanians, Poles, … ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of the cultural life of Jews in Latvia, with emphasis on their musical ecosystem. … songs about Jewish cowboys (Gottlieb 2004, 64). Also Yemenite-Ashkenazi intermarriages in Israel during the 1930s …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… his A Voice Still Heard: The Sacred Song of the Ashkenazic Jews (University Park and London, 1976, pp. 100-101) … included in the Tikhkal , the general prayer book of the Yemenites Jews. In the course of time the text of “She’eh ne’esar” …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… [1] It has been retold by generation after generation of Jews in various vernacular languages, in both oral and … Isaac has constituted a common motif in works of art among Jews throughout the ages (Sabar 2009, 9–27). In Jewish … confessional prayers of various communities, such as the Yemenite, Persian and Babylonian Jews. It should be added, …
The Hallelôt in the Yemenite Dīwān (Hebrew)
… and sirot , the hallel ô t take up little space in the Yemenite diwan . There are further differences: the hallel … one unified blessing. … Halelot … 9436 … Hallelot … Yemen … Yemenite … Yemenite Jews … Yemenite community … Diwan … The Hallelôt in the …
Yemenite Qasīd Songs (Hebrew)
… well, could understand them. Those who copied the Yemenite diwans did not attach much importance to the … contemporary stories, like tales of the social life of the Jews and of the Moslems, animal stories, and anecdotes about … studying twenty qasid songs which he has collected from Yemenite diwans , making a detailed survey of their …
The Music and its Function in the Singing of the Qasīd anda birabbī dī kalaq (Hebrew)
… The Jewish Yemenite collection of poems - the Diwan - includes three … in Y. Ratshabi's article in this volume. … 23258 … Yemen … Yemenite … Yemenite Jews … Yemenite community … Poems … Singing … Diwan … The …
Plurivocality in the Liturgical Music of the Jews of San‘a (Yemen)
… Musicologists today agree that the traditional music of the Yemenite Jews has unique stylistic characteristics. These … of certain specific musical elements common to all the Yemenite Jews. The search for these musical elements has …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… where it is variously attributed to Sephardic or even Yemenite origins, as we shall see. Kikhlot yeini text, … for the legendary label Folkways (Track 12 on the long-play Yemenite and Other Folk Songs , Folkways Records, FW 8735). … below, attesting that it was known among the Baghdadi Jews until the last generation of immigrants to Israel in …