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Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… been agents of change, exchanging ideas with visiting Egyptian and Iranian musicians and introducing these ideas …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… repertoire through a para-liturgical piyyut, after its Egyptian commercial recording. Your browser does not support …
Abraham Salman
… of genres, from the local Iraqi maqam to the cosmopolitan Egyptian-styled tarab along with classical Western music …
Avraham Da‘ud (Avraham David Ha-Cohen)
… in Iraq, Avraham Da‘ud performed with numerous Lebanese and Egyptian players such as Muhammad Salman, ‘Abd al-Mutallib, …
Shir agid
… of the opening of the Suez Canal. It became the anthem of Egypt in 1876. The song was sanctioned as anthem by the Khedive (Ruler) of Egypt Isma’il Pasha. The poet set his song about the ten … al-Khdawi” (Peace upon the Ruler). The melody of this Egyptian anthem was extremely popular among Levantine Jews. …
Moshe Havusha
… traditions are based on both Syrian (“Halabi”) and Egyptian musical styles. Today, Havusha, who still lives in …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Bible with a geographical reference to a location south of Egypt or around the horn of Africa. In this context it … Jerusalem’s Old City in 1914 on its way to the invasion of Egypt can be seen in a rare footage in …
Linked by Melody: Gibraltar/Moroccan Songs for Passover (and Shavuoth)
… the events leading through the ten plagues to the exit from Egypt. This Judeo-Spanish song has been profusely documented … Literal translation by Edwin Seroussi Moses went out of Egypt fleeing from king Pharaoh Went directly to Midian … shoes You are in a holy site. You shall go straight to Egypt and you shall tell king Pharaoh To give you the keys …
Sarah Harat
… in this daring raid. She also wrote a song of rebuke about Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Due to her knowledge …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… the concluding pastat. He also listened to early commercial Egyptian recordings, among them those by the El-Akkad … of many Baghdadi musicians to the aesthetics of modern Egyptian music. By this time the qanun had become a leading … Middle Eastern musical genres, from the Iraqi maqam to Egyptian tarab music, alongside various Persian, Kurdish, …