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Eikha yashvah vadad

… comprehensive musical ethnography of Jewish immigrants from Arab lands. Interestingly, the three renditions by the same …

One of the "Persian Letters" of Edith Gershon-Kiwi

Edith Gerson-Kiwi in Tehran (1961): Documents from a Revealing Journey

… musically he was a representative of the modernizing, Arabo-centered trend within the mainstream Sephardic … liturgies, in particular those in countries of Persian and Arab culture, have adopted the melodic systems of dastgah … a kind of loose coexistence. Later on, however, the Perso-Arab systems of modal improvisation were superimposed upon …

On the Occasion of his Ten Years of Broadcasting in the Jerusalem Radio

Ezra Aharon (“Azuri”): Ten Years at the Palestine Broadcasting Service (PBS)

… music, and Ezra’s mastery of both traditional and modern Arab music. A careful reading of the text reveals a sense of … important piece of information concerns Azuri’s role in the Arab section of the PBS. Alongside the celebratory claim that the Arab population of Palestine and beyond also enjoyed his …

Lekha Eli Teshuqati (Sephardic Siddur, 14th-15th century)

Lekha Eli Teshuqati: Experiencing total self-surrender to God in song

… has a simple poetic structure, modeled on the classical Arabic qasida , that induces an ecstatic sensation in … lines, each containing two hemistiches, scanned in the Arabic hazaj meter (‿---‿---/‿---‿---, called marnin in … a different intonation to the same pattern in an Arab-speaking Middle Eastern community. … The following …

‘Ozreni El Hay Lehakhni’a’ in NLI, Ms. 8o 3187

The Modernity of Piyyut Creativity: Ozreni El Hay Lehakhni'a

… against his coreligionists who are attracted to popular Arabic songs. Paradoxically, in all his works Rabbi Antebi … the melody of an extant (and probably popular at the time) Arabic song. In addition to the printed sources, few … are arranged according to the Turkish makamlar or Arabic maqamat , as became customary in the Levant since the …