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From Destruction to Rebuilding in the Iberian Peninsula
… circumstances which led to the establishment of a Jewish settlement at the tip of the Iberian Peninsula just … seven decades and is the most recognized voice of the Jewish Gibraltarian liturgical singing tradition. The main body of the article will present …
Adiel Ben Shalom
… in the Yemenite music and the melodies of the Diwan Jewish community of Tsa'na, collaborating with Prof. Edwin … Expertise includes Yemenite folk songs and women's singing. He contributed to technological developments in … in the field of Yemenite music … Diwan … Yemen … yemenite singing … Yemenite … Adiel Ben Shalom …
Sarah Harat
… scholarly education, an unusual feature for young Yemenite Jewish girls at the time. Sarah was exposed to the traditional poetry of the Yemeni Jewish women and to the sacred poetry, the Diwan, performed … songs for other joyous occasions and laments. She began singing at traditional henna events for Yemeni Jewish women …
Léibele Schwartz
… , and on the bilingual radio program La Hora Israelita (The Jewish Hour) in the Radio Porteña station. In 1947, at the … Zedek , the third oldest synagogue in New York City and the Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills , one of the oldest … RCA, Radio León, Panzer and Musique Internationale (USA) singing Jewish liturgical music, Hasidic songs and songs …
Sarah Gorby
… , Bessarabia (now Chișinău, Moldova), was a renowned Jewish singer known for performing Yiddish, Russian, and … Gorby showed an early interest in music and classical singing. Her family's relocation to Paris in the 1920s … technique. She initially performed in small venues and Jewish community events, where her unique voice and emotive …
Joe Elias
… Ensemble. He continued performing and teaching Sephardic Jewish songs for over 30 years, resulting in a prolific, yet … in New Mexico as part of a program to bring together the Jewish community with the Escondidos (crypto-Jews who fled … grandmother Sarah Elias, and an original recording of her singing the song. See also in our website a playlist of the …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… The Jewish liturgy was never a sealed and unified corpus. Its … tunes differ to a great extent from those of all other Jewish communities. They contain elements of original Jewish … is the only evidence we have of this liturgical text, the singing of this string of Psalms remained alive in the oral …
Music Subjects in the Zohar: Texts and Indices
… from the Book of Splendor, the main medieval text of Jewish mysticism, addressing non-verbal sound, song and singing (celestial and human). Indices cross relate between … Online in NLI website Under the terms of use of The Jewish Music Research Centre and The National Library …
Splendid Singing Birds: Jewish Women’s Songs from Kerala
… … This playlist is the advanced release of Splendid Singing Birds: Jewish Women’s Songs from Kerala , one of the longstanding projects of the Jewish Music Research Centre. Led with diligence, profound …
1. Oh Lovely Parrot!
… payinkiḷi —literally translated as a “green parrot,” and in Jewish Malayalam an epithet for a very beautiful woman— … allegorically represent the ancestors of the Jews who are singing the song. In both versions, the parrot or parrots … and two others (songs 2 and 14) points to a tradition of Jewish roots in what is now the small town of Palayur, as …