This paper focuses on the impact of technology (computers, the Internet, iPods) on the transmission of oral tradition, specifically the cantillation of the Torah, in the contemporary Jewish community. The highly detailed and musically nuanced public recitation of the Torah require that the reader memorize both the pronunciation of unvocalized Hebrew text and the […]
2012 • bar mitzvah • bat mitzvah • cantillation • community • impact of | ICTs • Jewish • oral tradition • Torah