… decided to gather the Qessoch ( Qessoch , priesthood; sing. Qes , from the Amharic q ə s , also called kahena t, sing. kahen , from Ge’ez kah ə n ) at a learning institution …

This song is an example of how a Ladino folksong was created in a short period. Based on…

… (BAECS 129b) and as a refrain, it adds the traditional blessing of the beginning of the year which, as we have seen …

… Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent passing of Cheikh Mwijo (1937-2020), one of the most … Silver. Sitting in a café in Haifa one day, Mwijo began to sing and this, he recalled, literally brought the … I personally owe him deep thanks for this warm support along the path, with special songs that he composed and …

… origin Joachim Braun (Bar Ilan University), whose passing Karnes mourns (p. vi); indeed, reading Karnes’s … documentation of the Melngailis project as a whole, disclosing Karnes’s intimate familiarity with Melngailis’s life … to Karnes’s volume calls attention to “encounters along the Baltic coast” between Jews and non-Jews. Despite …

… a moment when the ‘tantsfirer’ gave his instructions. The singer’s note is interesting: ‘The song was sung among us to … when we used to converge on a room to dance in addition to singing, my father used to say: when boys dance with girls, …

… Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of Moroccan Jewish folk singer Alicia (Benassayag) Bendayan on Friday, June 11, … be remembered for her extraordinary memory and her pleasant singing voice, which can be heard throughout the vast …

… in synagogues during evening rituals on winter Saturdays to sing from a collection of piyyutim divided in sections … elohenu” appears in this collection under makam  Shehnaz . Singing in an Ottoman Turkish style, the Maftirim have maintained their oral tradition of choral singing until the present day. As a result, we have an …

A song referring to the 1908 reenactment of the 1876 Ottoman constitution. It is an…

… 1) This selection is similar to the biblical verses composing the last paragraph of the Grace of the Meal according … collection, see attached PDF ) differs somehow from what he sings. In any case the selection fits the ending of the … the end of the Grace of the Meal and/or the Hallel. Levy sings the distinctive North Moroccan version, the area where …