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Yevarekhekha
… the morning liturgy on holidays and, in the Land of Israel, on Sabbaths, too (some Sephardi communities outside Israel also follow this custom). Each word of this ancient …
Im tashiv (Qiddush shel Shabbat)
… a different, declarative style on the verses veshamru bnei Yisrael et ha- shabbat ("The children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath", Exodus 31:16-17). The …
Kamti lehallel leshem hael hanikhbad
… composed many well-known piyyutim, such as Yom zeh le-Yisrael (usually attributed to Rabbi Isaac Luria Ashkenazi … e.g. in the Tefillat kol peh , Gebeden der Portugees-israelitieten (Amsterdam, 1950, p. 3). The poem opens with a …
Shelomo Morag
… Shlomo Morag was an Israeli professor at the department of Hebrew Language at … was a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and a fellow of …
Moshe Havusha
… 1961 into a family of Iraqi immigrants in Jerusalem’s Beit Israel neighborhood. He absorbed the ancient Iraqi … musical styles. Today, Havusha, who still lives in the Beit Israel neighborhood, is a popular hazzan , payytan , …
Isaac Levy
… of Music and Dance) and in Tel Aviv at the Samuel Rubin Israel Academy of Music (now the Buchmann-Mehta School of … he was appointed head of the Ladino department at the Israeli public radio, Kol Yisrael ("Voice of Israel"). In 1954, Levy founded a series …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… There are scholars of Jewish and Israeli culture whose crucial contributions remain sealed to … of the modern Hebrew song (aka Zemer ‘ivri or Shirei Eretz Israel ) in its formative period (c. 1880-1940), Hacohen … of the veterans of the Hebrew song programming at the Kol Israel (“Voice of Israel”) radio station who invited Hacohen …
Naomi Bahat-Ratzon
… the music and dance of the Yemenite Jewish communities in Israel. Along with Bahat they edited records focusing on … articles and books focusing on ethnic music and dance in Israel. For more information about Bahat-Ratzon's …
Piris Eliyahu
… situated in the Eastern Caucasus. In 1989 he emigrated to Israel. After some years he became head of the Theory course … and cinema. Classical music orchestras in Daghestan and in Israel played his compositions, which are based on the …
Shoshana Ben-Dor
… Ben-Dor is an important scholar of Ethiopian Jews in Israel since 1979. She studies the Ethiopian culture and … of the Ethiopian community. Ben-Dor is the director in Israel of North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry . See: The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer … Researcher of …