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Sara Levi-Tanai
… Sara Levi-Tanai was an Israeli choreographer, playwright, and lyricist renowned for … Her innovative teaching materials, including original songs and music, gained significant recognition and have … themes of exile and redemption, resonating deeply with the Israeli public and the Jewish diaspora. Levi-Tanai was …
"Ahuv mehar hamor natan li morasha" (My beloved from the mountain of Myrrh has given me an inheritance)
… as is usual in folk poems. The melody of this song is one of the most popular wedding melodies, and is … , are also sung to it. Sarah Levi-Tanai also used it in her song Im ha- shaḥar (With dawn); she wrote words of her own … by many singers, and has been the basis of a popular Israeli folk dance. (Bahat, 1983: 427). Hereby follow the …
Haim Louk
… repertoire includes Andalusian music (Ala), piyyutim , and songs from the Shir Yedidot tradition (the Moroccan … , and the Piyyut Festival , collaborating with leading Israeli musicians. In 2011, he was awarded the Ministry of … via Wikimedia Commons) … 73 … 41400 … A leading Israeli Paytan, representative of North African piyyut …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… order of the Jews of Provençe, the subject of this Song of the Month, fulfill a similar function to that of the … titled Chants hebraïques suivant le rite des communautes Israelites de l’ancien Comtat Venaissin (Paris: Delanchy: … their prayer be heard favorably. Prayers are described as songs, but also deemed to incense and sacrifices. Here is …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… (يوسف زعرور) was born in Baghdad in either 1902 or 1896—per Israeli immigration documents—to a family of ten children. … musics. Zaarur was also a prolific composer. He composed songs in diverse genres including the Egyptian taqtuqa ; … in Baghdad as a Palestinian refugee during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war; see Dori 2022:198 ). Zaarur trained numerous …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… (2015), who focuses on the “contemplative” nigunim of the Israeli Habad Hasidim, and combines musicological … in an extensive study of a different sub-genre—the Israeli Hasidic dance-nigunim repertoire—by Yaakov Mazor, … and melodies of Yiddish popular and Hebrew quasi-Hasidic songs that were instrumentally performed at Israeli Hasidic …
Yaakov Huri
… everything”), and stressed that Huri recorded one Hebrew song, “ H ay, h ay yodu h ay” that “no one else had … of the ‘edot”, a nomenclature that was favored by the Israeli folkloristics and media. To cover such vast … Kiwi selected, as was the norm with Idelsohn and later Israeli ethnographers, what used to be called “key …