… more accessible, communal modes of prayer. Friedman’s early compositions were designed to be accompanied by simple … for You listen with compassion to the prayer of Your people Israel. Blessed are You, Lord, who listens to prayer. [2] … this harmonic progression appears in popular music of the early 1990s as a signifier of hope and optimism. Moreover, …

… refers mainly to the hope of the return of the Children of Israel from the Babylonian exile in the past, it is used … Singing Shir hama’alot to the typical melodies of the yearly cycle was a widespread musical custom of … domestic sphere among families of German origin residing in Israel. The following table shows which melodies of festive …

… titled Chants hebraïques suivant le rite des communautes Israelites de l’ancien Comtat Venaissin (Paris: Delanchy: … Jews from Algeria and Morocco to Southern France since the early nineteenth century. As we shall see, the Psalm verses … "The “emissary of the congregation” as an individual in the early Reshut ".U. Ehrlich (ed.), Jewish Prayer, New …

… dream in the book of Genesis); twelve – the tribes of Israel; thirteen – attributes of mercy (according to … in Prague in 1526/7 found at the National Library of Israel . It appeared in print for the first time in the 1590 … structure of questions and answers and its numbers are nearly identical to those in “E h ad mi yodea,” with some of …

… on historical events and Jewish festivities of the yearly cycle. Susana Weich-Shahak defines the copla as a poem … available, including quite a few at the National Library of Israel (NLI). Below are a several versions of the song. Some … Saltiel’s ethnographic recording, here the metric form is clearly outlined, primarily performed in 2/4, with occasional …

… songs.  Two musicians who fuse these two genres are the Israeli singer Yasmin Levy and the guitarist Baldi Olier. … dancer, has, for example, cooperated with Mor Karbasi, an Israeli singer who specializes mostly on Sephardic songs.   … in some interesting commercial renditions, e.g. a very early one by Haim Effendi , I will focus here on the latter. …

… the stolen objects listed in this second version are nearly identical to those in the first version. On the other … is very similar to the one in Beregovski's collection. The Israeli klezmer band ‘Oy Division’ also recorded this song …

… popular in parts of Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Also known as bulgarish, it is a … in Bessarabia. Its best known step is similar to the Israeli dance hora.” Alpert 1996b, p. 58 . ( …