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Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … among various communities, there seems to be an underlying musical structure tying together all the documented versions … fast days in the Jewish liturgical calendar, spiced with folk tales related to these events. When the section in the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis … collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics makes public a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… from archives around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which repertoires of traditional music have evolved in the century or more since commercial … it for choir, in the spirit of the modernist approach to folk songs characteristic of the twentieth-century Bulgarian …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… later in her life, became one of the most remarkable folk performers of traditional Sephardic songs within the … . Today many consider “Pesah a la mano” as a traditional folksong, and rightly so. Jagoda first recorded the song in … patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. Purim, Purim Lanu (Ladino …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… glad to launch the sixth volume in the Contemporary Jewish Music series, 13 Jewish Folk Tunes, an online world-premiere recording of … scene that includes liturgical, para-liturgical and folk tunes of Eastern European and Babylonian Jewish …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of Moroccan Jewish folk singer Alicia (Benassayag) Bendayan on Friday, June 11, … appeared on commercial recordings, such as the important Folkways release, Ballads, Wedding Songs, and Piyyutim of …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… means of communication capable of surmounting estrangement. Music and music making was an area of cultural expression in which the … Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur: Qanun master, composer and …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of … documentation of Eastern European Jewish music and folklore. The complicated paths of encounter between … , at the time the Librarian and Director of the Archive of Folk Song at the American Folklife Center of the Library of …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … for the symbolic public display, through the language of music, of new evolving aesthetic ideals, of Jewish public … and transmission of religious values, customs and folklore of German Jewry as they existed prior to the …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and music. The neighborhood had grown around an absorption … context, is also favored over other available choices: a folklorized, depoliticized Ethiopianness or alternatively, … music in Israel occurring in the moment of transition, when folkloric styles played by community members were not only a …