Shamil: Concept, Practice and Reception of a Nigunin Habad Hasidism

Edwin Seroussi

Shamil: Concept, Practice and Reception of a Nigunin Habad Hasidism

Publication date: 06.04.2018

Studia Judaica, 2017, Nr 2 (40), pp. 287-306

https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.17.013.8248

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Shamil: Concept, Practice and Reception of a Nigunin Habad Hasidism

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The article discusses the conception, performance and reception of nigun Shamil as a representative case of the social, literary and technological mechanisms that characterize music in Habad, past and present. The author argues for the centrality of non-accompanied, mostly wordless vocal tunes performed by the Hasidic masters such as the Lubavitcher Rebbe, as a main vehicle for the articulation of both the heightening of mystical experience and the teaching of Hasidism.

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Shamil, Habad, Hasidism, music, nigun

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Information: Studia Judaica, 2017, Nr 2 (40), pp. 287-306

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.17.013.8248

Article type: Original article

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Edwin Seroussi

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel

Published at: 06.04.2018

Article status: Open

Licence: CC BY-NC-ND

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Edwin Seroussi (Author) - 100%

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Shamil: Concept, Practice and Reception of a Nigunin Habad Hasidism

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