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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 … songs, it seems that the absence of a scholar familiar with Hebrew and Yiddish folk songs was detrimental to this … in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, Russian, Hebrew and Yiddish) usually impede access for the general …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… African Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew song, which had developed starting in the sixteenth … the opening line of one of the most popular modern Ladino songs, “Pesah a la mano,” authored by singer, accordionist, … literary genres in different languages, written and oral. A Hebrew song generates a popular saying combining Hebrew and …
Moshe Cordova
… its activities in Istanbul. The Mafṭirim performed Hebrew poetry set to Turkish classical music on the Sabbaths … became partners during these years, and recorded Ottoman Hebrew music commercially, some of which is presented in … piyyutim (religious poems), Shirei Israel be-Eretz Haqedem “Songs of Israel in the East,” together with Binyamin Bekhar …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of … life, she treasured within her memory the Judeo-Spanish songs of the North Moroccan Sephardic community, playing a … Jews . Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2014. (In Hebrew) Weich-Shahak, Susana. Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… stage, the project consisted of the full bilingual (English/Hebrew characters) computerization of the original … Aleph cataloging system and in the Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew languages, engaged in this project from 1996 to 1999. … s containing the musical and textual transcriptions of the songs would become available in Jerusalem. That promise …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… klita ), where new Jewish immigrants are housed, taught Hebrew, supported in their first steps in the host society … community (the priests— qessotch in Amharic, qessim in the Hebrew adaptation), in effect dismantling the qessim ’s … 4). Chapter 6 provides detailed musical analysis of several songs: a solo voice and masinqo performance, a solo voice …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… in Beregovski’s Evreiskiie narodnyie pesni [Jewish Folk Songs] – the collection that Beregovski prepared for … notice the presence of fragments from nign 3 in the Zionist Hebrew repertoire consolidating in Palestine since the late … As Mazor has shown in his groundbreaking study, this new Hebrew repertoire, usually known as Shirei Eretz Israel …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… not exclusively, dominated by the singing of paraliturgical Hebrew (and at times Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic) poetry. This … (1900-1970). However, it belongs to a genre of popular songs that draw heavily from folk styles from the Greater … from Gaon’s repertoire, “Morenica” (“Sheḥarḥoret” in its Hebrew version also by Gaon), in Moroccan synagogues in …
Yaqub Murad al-‘Amari (aka Yaqub Bar-Nay)
… recorded Iraqi maqamat, pastat, and “mainstream” style songs for the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA), performed … recordings at National Library of Israel (catalogue in Hebrew): The National Library of Israel Warkov collection …
Hisqil Qassab
… where he continued reading the Maqam and recording songs on Israeli radio, until he died in Israel in 1969.” For the full biography click here (Hebrew). Click here for the recordings of Hisqil Qassab on …