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Yaakov Huri
… as well as the nature of the relationship between her and her research partners. The intimate relationship between … and she was still in Baghdad. Sima's family used to travel back and forth from Palestine to Baghdad. While attending school back …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European landscape: Hasidic tish-nigunim. Nigunim (Yiddish nign , from … They serve various religious functions and have a mystical background. This genre apparently crystallized in the … century. The nigunim ascribed to Yosl Tolner (henceforth: Tolner’s nigunim) thus offer a particular case …
Léibele Schwartz
… Schwartz was born in Brod, Poland, on March 22, 1928 as Yehudah Leib Kirzner. He began his … who, based in Latin America, toured they world moving back and forth from continent to continent, alternating between the …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… once wrote, is essentially a history of suffering and saints, or Leidensgeschichte and Geistesgeschichte . … whose health had not fully recovered accompany them back to Johannesburg where the climate would be more … Sephardic Jews, kushim , [4] Galician Jews and so forth. All sorts of sounds emanated from his study. On many …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… projected into this text his own vision of Jewish history and destiny as well as his take on prophecy and genius. … as if natural to him, and even to a Jerusalemite! However, back then, a whole generation back, the meaning of this word … scholar – became simply a schnorrer! And so on and so forth… This is a sad spectacle among our people. Especially …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… of Ukraine in Kyiv, aka the “Beregovski Collection,” [henceforth: the Kyiv collection] has attracted the attention of musicians and scholars of Jewish music ever since they resurfaced in … he would have realized that “To anyone familiar with the background of the Kiev Institute’s library [i.e. Institute …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: … book found at the National Library of Israel (henceforth NLI; see ex. 1); [8] based on an unpublished … on such collections. Analyzing the social and institutional background of each collection, as well as the figures …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… concerns a Sephardic song commonly sung on the Passover and Shavuot holidays, which is derived from a group of songs … ascended to the skies Without food or water He brought back the Tablets of the Law And on them is written Anoji [ … not mentioned here, but are addressed by Seroussi in his forthcoming Spanish-language article which illuminate …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch directly upon the … poetical texts,” claiming that some of them may date back to medieval times. He argues that this specific melody, … judgement as to whether these tunes are capable of calling forth in our days the ideas and sentiments they are supposed …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… Hebrew poetry. Ibn Ezra was born in Tudela, Spain in 1089 and died around 1164. During this period there were wars and vicissitudes in Spain that greatly affected the Jewish … before this poor seeker O Lord, God of / Abraham call him forth Transliteration and Translation from B’nai Jeshrun: …