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Tsur levavi shokhen aliya (shir le-hatunah)
… inhabitant of heights (wedding song). A wedding piyut by Iraqi Jewish poet Salih Masliah (d. 1785). Performed by Ezra … Salih Masliah continued to be sung to the same melody by Iraqi Jews in Israel. See the recording by Shlomo Mu’alem at …
Yehi shalom (zemer le-berit milah)
… 2 onwards) is still very popular among descendants of Iraqi Jews in Israel. Compare with the version in Amnon Shiloah, The musical tradition of Iraqi Jews (Or Yehuda, 1983), no. 51, pp. 116-7 … From the …
Pizmon al masaot mi-Bagdad ad kever Yehezkel ha-navi.
… was a destination for thousands of Jewish pilgrims in Iraq during the Passover holidays through the mid-20th … On this song see, Amnon Shiloah, The musical tradition of Iraqi Jews (Or Yehuda, 1983), no. 59, pp. 126-7 … From the …
Moshe Havusha
… Moshe Havusha was born in 1961 into a family of Iraqi immigrants in Jerusalem’s Beit Israel neighborhood. He absorbed the ancient Iraqi traditions of prayer and piyyutim from his … Havusha (in Hebrew). … Paytan and Musician … Bakkashot … Iraq … oud player … Paytan … Aleppo … Baqqashot … Selihot - …
Shema' qoli
… the undisputed leaders of the Academy of Babylonia (today Iraq). It was adopted by the Sephardi communities as an …
