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A Flowering Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not just) for Tu BiShvat
… cycle at the end of winter is a relatively newcomer to the Jewish calendar, going back “only” to Mishnaic times. … exerted great influence on modern Sephardic and Oriental Jewish ritual practices. This influence is clearly reflected in the …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is … is highlighted: Textless songs have probably been common in Jewish life for a long time. This could be connected with … length of breath, and so on. Instead, Hasidic singing practices emphasize partnership and the power of mutual …
‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… around the mid-sixteenth century from the circles of Jewish mystics of Safed and spready rapidly throughout the Jewish world, especially to Italy. One key figure in these … … [7] On these variants and on the diverse kabbalistic practices related to Qabbalat Shabbat and Mordecai Dato’s …
A Selection of Judeo-Spanish Songs
… of few songs in Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) following the practices of several of his predecessors and contemporaries, …
El Jiwneh Hagalil (Lied der galilaischen Arbeiter) – God will Build the Galilee (Galilee Worker’s Song)
… ha-galil would fill an entire chapter in the history of the Jewish song (Seroussi 2010). Different tunes, variations of the lyrics, arrangements and performance-practices reshaped its meanings and contexts of performance … offers a contrasting musical symbol signifying the modern Jewish national rebirth colored in the dorian mode. The …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… The collection of historical Jewish field recordings at the Vernadsky National Library of … cycle events recorded in 1913 in Ottoman Palestine from Jewish singers belonging to Middle Eastern communities … of these fragments. Lurie’s recordings reflect musical practices of Jews from the Ottoman provinces of Greater …
Shefa Gold
… is a Rabbi, composer, and spiritual leader in the liberal Jewish denominations in the USA. She was ordained as a Rabbi … connection to Buddhism and wanted to bring some of its practices to Judaism. Gold combined the old practice of … Hebrew chanting at Kol Zimra, a formal training program in Jewish chant. She is also a leader and a teacher at ALEPH …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… the article “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the … analyzed in detail in that article. Research of Moroccan Jewish religious music has been largely, if not exclusively, … from Oudja, Tlemcen and Wahran. Among these paraliturgical practices, the repertoire of the early morning winter vigils …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… volunteer in Meseret , a center that supported traditional Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and … around an absorption center ( merkaz klita ), where new Jewish immigrants are housed, taught Hebrew, supported in … History (1986) situated Falasha liturgy and religious practices in a broader Ethiopian and Christian context …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to … early 19 th century up to World War II, investigating these practices within a broad European cultural context. The … the language of music, of new evolving aesthetic ideals, of Jewish public emotions, of cross-cultural intersections …