… singing other liturgical texts. The melody consists of two musical phrases repeated according to the aaba scheme. … U'ak. … From the upcoming release of JMRC's-Anthology of Musical Traditions in Israel: The Historical Recordings of … educated in one of the most important centers of Sephardi religious music, Edirne, where a local Jewish choir called …

… the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … These additions also blurred the borderline between the religious and mundane spheres in this domestic Jewish … text phrase by phrase, a common learning technique in religious schools in Eastern Europe. Our website includes …

… it became major hub for liturgical and paraliturgical music in the modern western section of Jerusalem. It also … client for this music that also found a place in Jewish religious contexts. It is important to stress that the … from Arab countries to preserve this musical repertoire in religious contexts.  At stake here is the power of Arabic …

… of Adrianpole excelled especially in Hebrew poetry and in music, two fields in which Isaac Eliyahu Navon excelled as … 2. lyrical, secular poems (about love and nature) or with religious content (for example, dreams of redemption). His … resources. At the heart of his style are the patterns of religious piyyutim of the Jews of Turkey, created in the …

… the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a child in Baghdad’s school for blind Jewish … in the 1920s and many of the students who showed musical talent were taught to become musicians in order to … between Abraham Salman and one of the most distinguished religious singers of Israel, Moshe Havusha, singing a …

… Ancis for four part men's choir. New York: Transcontinental Music Corporation, 1945. Example 5 Moisei Beregovski, … melody of “ H ag Purim” was previously set to a variety of religious poems in Hebrew and Yiddish. It was also featured … is conceived by the secular Israeli Jewish society, from a religious festival to a children's festival of carnavalesque …

… 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. … friends, throughout his career, were also ethnic (if not religious) Jews. A book in such a series might be reasonably …

… Sveta, was the local cantor. He studied at the 'cheder' (religious elementary school). Later he graduated from high … Yehudith Wahl, from Berlin. In 1917 he began writing about music for various Russian-language periodicals in Kiev and … He has recorded over 150 performances on history and music on The Voice of Jerusalem radio station. From 1947 he …

… The songs within the genre of Israeli Folksongs also share musical similarities. These include the fact that many are … of a new, Hebrew, non-Diaspora Jew. As part of this effort, music held an integral role. This can be seen through the … Jewish holidays that received a new Zionist, rather than religious, meaning, and through the songs that depict the …