Roundup of interesting Jewish links: art and language

[chanaleh]

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[530nm330hz]

Thanks for these links! A lot to check out....

[magid]

The Jewish Heritage Hebrew lessons remind me of the column in Hadassah magazine that works very similarly.

I assume that the trope links are both Ashkenaz, though neither said specifically. It would be extremely cool to have a site that let you hear the different tropes out there...

[chanaleh]

Yup, that was Joseph Lowin's "About Hebrew". :-) Hebrewspeak is a collection of those columns.

[enochs_fable]

Neat stuff. The thing that I found so interesting about learning trope was how many different systems there were stemming from the various ethnic groups of Jews.

[chanaleh]

See, and you're the second person to say this...! I do think it's interesting that there are near-infinitely many variations (even for "Ashkenazi Torah trope", never mind there being 6 different sets of trope even within one basic setting, only two of which I have yet learned) and divergent cultural musical traditions. But I would never think of that as being The Thing I find interesting about learning trope, any more than I would think the interesting part of taking up painting was how many brands of paint there are. :-)

[enochs_fable]

Well, it's hardly the only thing - just one thing. Something like painting, that's a wee bit different, because there isn't a prescribed system for How To Paint - and there's far more to an ethnic group than their color. :) Perhaps it's just that my awareness of the traditions of the varied cultures of Jewry is fairly limited and patchy.

This is the same reason I found Claudia Roden's book so fascinating. Not only did I not realize there were other interpretations of kashrut beyond mainline Ashekenaz/Sefardi, I didn't even realize there were any Indian Jews around these days.