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Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… , Judith R. Cohen and Risto Pekka Pennanen In 2008 the Jewish Music Research Centre released a 4-CD package … the geographical distribution of recordings to Ottoman Jewish centers beyond Constantinople/Istanbul. Moreover, the … by Alfred A. Zara and Robert Bedford as Traditions and customs of the Sephardic Jews of Salonica . New York: …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… in Hebrew) for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, a fast day in Jewish tradition marking the breach of Jerusalem’s … this date was associated with other catastrophes in Jewish history. In spite of its prominence in Jewish historical memory, this fast day has not generated …
Mordechai Breuer
… and holidays. In Israel, Breuer taught the history of Jewish music at the conservatory. In the 1950s, he taught at … calendar', including liturgical and para-liturgical music, customs, and traditions, as were customary in the community … was made systematically according to topics in the Jewish calendar as follows: introduction and personal …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… known as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which originated among the Jewish communities scattered throughout the Ottoman Empire … singing tradition found among the descendants of the Jewish communities exiled from Spain to the lands of Islam … by the Eastern communities… who instilled in the synagogue customs that were unknown.” Baqqashot singing During Friday …
Arvit
… Arvit is the last of the three daily services of the Jewish liturgy, along with Sha h arit and Min h a which are … all seven blessings. It is followed by Kaddish. Different customs for reciting the Arvit service The beginning of the … nusa h , the Arvit service begins with “Hu rahum.” Many Jewish communities originating in Islamic countries begin …
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… בן-נאה, ירון 2008 Jews in the realm of the Sultans: Ottoman Jewish society in the seventeenth century . Tübingen: Mohr … by Alfred A. Zara and Robert Bedford as Traditions and customs of the Sephardic Jews of Salonica . New York: … Weich-Shahak, Susana | וייך-שחק, שושנה 1979-80 “The wedding songs of the Bulgarian Sephardi Jews,” Orbis Musicae …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… Latvia (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He … Idelsohn was greatly impacted by the diversity of the Jewish community living in Palestine, and embarked on a … The various synagogues were conducted according to the customs of the respective countries, and their traditional …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… Song”. For a start, it represents two of the four genres (Jewish, Irish, Italian, and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take … heart of what became Berlin’s true genius and of what was Jewish – or at least ‘Jew-ish’ – about Berlin’s life and … already too many Jews involved in it. We are told that the Jewish moguls of Hollywood promoted a ‘white-picket-fence’ …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long … as elsewhere in the Arab world during the Nahda era, Jewish musicians played an active role in the performance … of the day (Salihi & Sa ʿ id 2015, 32); and Egypt’s female wedding musicians, known as the ʿ awalim (sing. ʿ alimah ), …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish communities. It consists of gatherings that occur … which up to then had been predominant in the Sephardi Jewish liturgy and piyyut singing in the Middle East, went … includes both solo and choral parts. Moroccan Baqqashot customs began to form during the 18th century, and developed …