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58. Ahashverosh Song
… Hebrew piyyut recounting the Purim story. Composed by the medieval Spanish poet Yehudah Halevy, it is sung on the …
36. O Woman Dwelling in the Field
… weddings, where its romantic innuendos were enjoyed. The medieval Hebrew piyyut is imaginatively located in biblical …
2. The Song of Evarayi
… and Muslim merchants from the Mediterranean in ancient and medieval times, who traveled in ships to Kerala by way of …
6. Vayalil Vasikkum Stṟiyĕ (Dwelling in the Field)
… composed in Kochi by Eliyahu Japheth (d. 1935), of the medieval Hebrew piyyut " Shokhant ba-sadeh " by Salomon Ibn …
A Flowering Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not just) for Tu BiShvat
… The theme of the debate between flowers is found in medieval Hispano-Arabic and Maghrebi poetry as well as in … and musical background that can be traced back to the medieval period. The Sephardic copla El debate de las flores …
La estrella Diana (Magnana Magnana, Majana & Majana - Romance Espagnole)
… (topics such as "la estrella Diana" and "linda dama" recall medieval Hispanic lyric songs). Haim's version, however, is …
Music Subjects in the Zohar: Texts and Indices
… compilation of passages from the Book of Splendor, the main medieval text of Jewish mysticism, addressing non-verbal …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… possibility of local accretions (generically defined as “medieval French chants”). Musically speaking, Minhag … in its entirety after the soloist, a rare technique in post-medieval Jewish liturgies … Rabbi Meir Zini (1921-2012), who …
11-13. La llamada a la morena + El vestido de la novia + La nave por partir + Las flechas del amor
… sun of summer had made her skin dark (for a very similar medieval Hispanic formulation, see Frenk 1987: 66-68 ). The …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… enigmatic, elusive figure. In a way, he, too, is like the medieval rabbis so beloved by Jewish Studies—a disembodied …