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‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… addition to ‘Lekhah Dodi.’ Even more important for the main musical argument of this Song of the Month (see below), the … and with many Hebrew loan words. The poem, which clearly dialogues with ‘Lekhah dodi’, is found in a manuscript … many Holy Congregations”. This publication is basically an early prototype of the modern bentsher , a pocket-size …
Linked by Melody: Gibraltar/Moroccan Songs for Passover (and Shavuoth)
… festivities of Passover and Shavuoth due to its content clearly connecting it with the events leading through the ten … Songs for the Year Cycle in our series Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel. … Mose salió de Misraim …
Hermana, hermana, hermana (9)
… In this wedding song the bride's sister is invited to come early in the morning (v.1-2, 8-10) to see the groom (v.3-5). … Judeo-Espanol - Judezmo ,Judeo-Spanish … Ethnography … Ethnomusicological Research … Fieldwork … Ladino Songs … Wedding …

Bendigamos
… France to Curaçao from where it also spread, in the early 20th century to the Spanish-Portuguese community of … and Raymond Goldstein (piano) … Judeo-Caribbean Currents: Music of the Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Curaçao … Jewish communities … Synagogue music … Afro American … America … caribbean … Arrangements … …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… Idelsohn's Hebrew and English biographies, written in the early 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared … Yitchak Hirshfeld. (MUS 0004 K 01_1). Birth, the parents, early childhood in Libau (1883-1895) and yeshiva studies in …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… in the Jewish past. A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern … it across the Baltic region, urban Germany, Ottoman and early British Palestine, Lithuanian Jewish South Africa, and … the new Hebrew-centric Jewish society of late Ottoman and early British-ruled Jerusalem. The intimacy of her …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… throughout Israel, in formal institutions such as the music teachers’ seminary of the Levinsky College of … programs about the pioneers of the modern Hebrew song and music education in Israel , with the participation of the … travelogues from his vast collection, as well as on the early modern Hebrew literature on nature, botany, zoology, …

A. Irma Cohon
… of Jewish Women, Cohon authored Introduction to Jewish Music in Eight Illustrated Lectures , a foundational text … 1923. This work served as a cornerstone for the Council’s music education initiatives for nearly three decades. Cohon also partnered with renowned …
Piris Eliyahu
… Eliyahu was born in Daghestan. He spent his childhood and early adult years there, during which he conducted ethnographic research on the musical traditions of the Mountain Jews situated in the … and taught in the Centre for Middle Eastern Classical Music in Musrara neighborhood, Jerusalem. In 2007 he …
Ani hatsal [sic] (Shir hatunah)
… (Jewish community in Palestine) after it was published with musical notation by Abraham Zvi Idelsohn in one of his … [1908], text on p. 128 and melody in the supplement of music notations, pp. 4-5). This version was then arranged by … the Selihot, penitential prayers recited from midnight to early morning during the month of Elul and the beginning of …