Program weekend 1
Lecturers: prof. Eli Schleifer, rabbijn David Lilienthal
Co-ordinator: Bram Lagendijk
Co-ordinator: Bram Lagendijk
Articles to be read for the first weekend:
(supplied by the Institute)
(supplied by the Institute)
- Eliyahu Schleifer: Jewish Liturgical Music from the Bible to Hasidism
- Geoffrey Goldberg: Jewish Liturgical Music in the Wake of Nineteenth-Century Reform
- Eliyahu Schleifer: Current Trends of Liturgical Music in the Ashkenazi Synagogue
Friday 24 August
18.00 Arrival + drinks and snacks
18.30 Opening of the weekend, getting to know you
19.00 Friday evening service
Evaluation
Evaluation
20.00 Dinner, zemirot, birkat hamazon
21.30 Study session 1: The role of the shatz I
Shabbat 25 August
08.30 Breakfast
09.00 Shabbat morning service
Evaluation
12.00 Break
12.30 Lunch, zemirot, birkat hamazon
13.30 Study session 2: What is prayer?
15.00 Study session 3: The role of the shatz II
17.30 Mincha
Dinner, zemirot, birkat hamazon
19.00 Study session 4: Structure of the siddur, The Shema and its blessings
20.00 Ma’ariv and Havdala
20.45 Study session 5: The Development of the Liturgy
Sunday 26 August
08.00 Morning service
08.45 Breakfast
09.30 Evaluation
10.00 Study session 6: Layers of synagogue music
11.15 Study session 7: Themes in the siddur
12.30 Lunch, birkat hamazon
13.30 Nusach, including "how to recognize where you are in the service"
14.45 Study session 8: Theological problems in the texts
16.00 Assignments for the students
Evaluation and Closing
16.00 Assignments for the students
Evaluation and Closing