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Ezra Barnea
… was an educator, but also a synagogue musician, paytan and cantor, an expert on the Jerusalem Sephardic tradition … for Religious Music, renamed “ Renanot – Institute for Jewish Music” in Jerusalem, an institution dedicated to the … his young age. In the last two years of Rabbi Uziel's life, Barnea would come to the rabbi's house every day and …
‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… Not much is known of the life of Rabbi Mordecai ben Yehudah Dato (1525? – … in 1560, where he studied with R. Moshe Cordovero, [2] and that in his native country he settled in San Felice sul … around the mid-sixteenth century from the circles of Jewish mystics of Safed and spready rapidly throughout the …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… table is available in table format as a PDF download here , and at the bottom of the page. In the present HTML version … 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one … to align synoptically the different events in Idelsohn’s life as he related them in the different versions of his …
Sheva' Berakhot ("Seven Blessings")
… berakhot ("Seven Blessings") are a central component of the Jewish wedding ceremony. This recording is a unique … mercy is forever let the suffering disappear from Israel and joyful occasions proliferate"). The complete, traditional version of the Seven …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… Study and commentaries: Rivka Havassy and Edwin Seroussi Research … , Judith R. Cohen and Risto Pekka Pennanen In 2008 the Jewish Music Research Centre released a 4-CD package … … Kalyviotis, Aristomenis, 2015 >>> Thessaloniki, Musical life before 1912 . Karditsa: Author’s edition. (in Greek). … …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) … this reassessment, allowing for new insights into Jewish life in Central Europe in the last centuries, as they have …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of … her 99th birthday on June 29. Throughout Alicia’s long life, she treasured within her memory the Judeo-Spanish … Alicia will be remembered for her extraordinary memory and her pleasant singing voice, which can be heard …
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 … Yiẓḥak , or ‘Akedah ) has assumed an important function in Jewish religion and culture since Antiquity. This renowned … Goldberg (2000) provides an extensive study of Maier Levi’s life and work. An important discussion of the ‘Akedah …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… morning service for Rosh Hashanah in the Sephardic liturgy and appears also, since at least the early eighteenth … who wilt arraign The nations at thy judgment seat, With life and favor bless again Thy people prostrate at thy … we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… of 'play song” or singing game commonly performed among the Jewish communities of central and southern Yemen. It is sung at the end of the bridal h … as well as during events and ceremonies associated with the life cycle. However, the strictness of this gender-based …