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Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… documentation of the three verses of Psalm 80 is highly remarkable if we consider their relatively secondary liturgical … (1924-2012), a Holocaust survivor from Salonica, is remarkable for its rarity. [1] Your browser does not support … a version of the melody for the Psalm 80 verses that is remarkably similar to the three Italian versions recorded by …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… (Bugatch 1961, 129). I suspect this “tuneful if unremarkable” melody (in Karnes’s words) might be related to the … did not know the Latvian language. [2] I thank the Mark Lavry Heritage Society for that information. [3] While …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… raised by the performance by Mr. Hocha, here are some remarks about this notable cantor. Nehemiah Hocha, cantor and … more akin to the Western Sephardi versions, whose trademark is the refrain “Avi, avi”, the Aleppo version is …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… the Seventeenth of Tammuz, a fast day in Jewish tradition marking the breach of Jerusalem’s fortifications leading to … poetical creativity as the Ninth of Av, the fast day marking the fall of the Jerusalem Temple which occurs … Heard: The Sacred Song of the Ashkenazic Jews (University Park and London, 1976, pp. 100-101) quoting Idelsohn's work …
Ben-Zion (Yisrael Noach) Kapov-Kagan
… In the United States, he served as hazzan at the Ocean Parkway Jewish Center in New York, and subsequently at the …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… of the famous record's label, showing Baidaphon’s trademark sign, the gazelle, and the name of the singer and the … back into circulation what I believe to be a rather remarkable evidence of a shared Arab-Jewish musical heritage, … but equally by the processes through which society marks them. [8] The general idea is that a meaningful …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… Israel Music Institute , were performed at the ceremony marking the foundation of the JMRC and the Department of … performed, premiering on May 30th, 2000 at a celebration marking the 75th anniversary of the Hebrew University's …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… ’ (‘The removal of the Torah scrolls [from the sacred ark for the festival] of Shavuot’). Through this source, we …
Moshe Attias
… accent, as the main language of communication. This very remarkable feature demonstrates his resistance to the … in a specific style of Moroccan Arabic Mwijo in fact marked the limits of his potential audience. What is even more remarkable is that the Moroccan audience in Israel today, a …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… of performance of “Piramidn.” Although, as Neil Levin remarks, the Jewish songs circulating in congregations and …