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Arabs - Jews - Music
… With the rise of Islam and the expanding Arab conquests throughout the Middle East, North Africa and … Jews of Antiquity found themselves living in lands where Arab culture and language predominated over all local … of these lands absorbed, integrated with and contributed to Arab culture, a process that continued well into the …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… by the singing of paraliturgical Hebrew (and at times Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic) poetry. This poetry is set to Andalusian … the congregation as a choir with the rhythmic melody of the Arab song “Ya um al-‘abaya” (يا أم العباية) that was made … is also sung to the same melody by a child soloist. This Arab song is obviously a latecomer to the Moroccan Jewish …
Abraham Salman
… Abraham Salman (born Shaharabani) was a qanun virtuoso, one of the finest players of … and a favored accompanist of some of Iraqi's best-known Arab singers. Salman immigrated to Israel in 1950 and was a … the local Iraqi maqam to the cosmopolitan Egyptian-styled tarab along with classical Western music repertoire arranged …
Yitzhak Aviezer
… Former Music Director and Producer for Voice of Israel in Arabic, composer, and conductor. Immigrated to Israel 1951. … musician, conductor and founder of "Kol Israel" in arabic … Kol Yisrael … Composer … Conductor … Kol Israel … …
Hisqil Qassab
… after the Jews were deported from Iraq as a result of the Arab-Israeli conflict, where he continued reading the Maqam …
Salim Shibith (Salim Ha-Cohen)
… took the additional step of engaging a teacher of Arabic literature and poetry to augment his education at a … Revisited . … Maqam performer … Vocal music … Iraq … Arabic Music Broadcast Ensemble … Israel Broadcast …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… It is a muwwashshah, “girdle” song, a traditional strophic Arabic form characterized by its refrain between the … one can see how “Fog al-Nakhal” was canonized as a popular Arab song through the disbursement of commercial recordings. … insist upon, “I have a friend up there,” two expressions in Arabic that sound highly similar, pronounced differently …
El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… of him from Paris mentioned that he recorded songs in Arabic, no such items have so far resurfaced. Sayag was a … in the late 1950s. Notice that Cohen adds a coda in Arabic to his recording, emphasizing the name of Allah and …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… A few years ago, I heard the song ‘Ehad mi yode’a’ in the Arabic language with the same tune. The person who performed … to Israel, that the tune he knew was similar to a Judeo-Arabic version he heard from a colleague of his in the … agrees that the tune he sings bears Mizrahi (Oriental) or Arabic elements. Unlike few other Aramaic versions available …
The Idelsohn Project
… musician who insisted that music and affect were inseparable from ethnic nationhood. Like his other creations, … physiognomy of Jewish Orientalism and its ties to early Arab- Jewish sociopolitical and cultural encounters in …