Download PDF by Sara Manasseh: Shbahoth – Songs of Praise in the Babylonian Jewish

By Sara Manasseh

ISBN-10: 0754662993

ISBN-13: 9780754662990

Sara Manasseh brings an important, yet much less widely-known, Jewish repertoire and culture to the eye of either the Jewish group (Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Oriental) and the broader international neighborhood. The publication showcases thirty-one songs and contains English translations, entire Hebrew texts, transliterations and the song notation for every track. The accompanying CD comprises eighteen of the thirty-one songs, sung by means of Manasseh, observed by means of 'ud and percussion. the rest 13 songs can be found individually at the album Treasures, played via Rivers of Babylon, directed through Manasseh - : www.riversofbabylon.com. whereas long ago a ebook of songs, with Hebrew textual content merely, was once enough for bearers of the culture, the current package deal represents a music assortment for the twenty-first century, with higher assets to help the educational and upkeep of the culture. Manasseh argues that the powerful inter-relationship of Jewish and Arab traditions during this repertoire - linguistically and musically - is critical and gives an intercultural software to advertise conversation, tolerance, realizing, concord and appreciate. The making a song of the Shbahoth (the Baghdadian Jewish time period for 'Songs of Praise') has been an important element of Jewish lifestyles in Iraq and is still valued by means of these within the Babylonian Jewish diaspora.

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