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Nahum Nardi
… on tour in Europe. During that tour, while visiting the Jewish Community center in Berlin, Nardi met the Yemenite singer Brakha Tzefira , who studied in Berlin at … Na'ama (1931-1989), and they began a joint concert tour of Jewish communities in Poland, Germany, Latvia, Belgium, …
Johanna L. Spector
… States. Spector collected many recordings of different Jewish musical cultures, including music from Iraqi, Persian, Yemenite, and Indian cultures. She documented these cultures … Nulman, Macy. 'Spector, Johann L.' Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music . … American Ethnomusicologist … …
Mordekhai Zeira
… and through his sister's playing. He was also exposed to Jewish melodies, while accompanying his father to the … (known more as Pakad Adonai ), composed in the style of Yemenite music, in accordance to the theater's request. From … In his songs, Zeira transmits a vast narrative of the [Jewish] people in Israel: Lemoladeti , Havo Lebanim , 'Al …
Moshe Wilensky
… returned to Warsaw. In his youth, Wilensky attended the Jewish " Eskela " Gymnasium, which offered Hebrew … stage. He also composed music for films produced by the Jewish National Fund ('Hakeren Hakayemet') and for "Yomani … Wilensky composed most of her songs, including Yemenite-style pieces to lyrics by Alterman and Orland, such …
Paul Ben-Haim
… the arrangements that he made for her Sephardi and Yemenite tunes into his symphonies and other works. His …
Menahem Avidom
… prominent composers who wrote arrangements for the unique Jewish-Yemenite artist and singer, Bracha Zefira, and based many of their compositions on Yemenite and Sephardi tunes she sang, he was one of the …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… 17, 1859. His father, Rabbi Eliyahu Navon, was one of the Jewish intellectuals and public figures in Adrianpole, a … urban centers of the Ottoman Empire in the 1860s: Haskalah (Jewish enlightenment) and Jewish nationalism. Educated Jews … of the pioneers in the research of the Jews of Ethiopia and Yemen and a journalist and a poet, was one of the prominent …
Yehiel 'Adaki
… as a goldsmith, a common profession among the Jews of Yemen, while at the same time, continuing with his religious … of Palestine) house. In Palestine, 'Adaki discovered that Jewish Yemenite singing is looked down upon, even by … portion), performed with his choir, and lectured about the Jewish Yemenite folklore. Additionally, 'Adaki worked with …
Avner Bahat
… of Musicology. In 1981, he established the Center for Jewish Music at Beit Hatfutsot, and from 1984 he began producing records, and later CDs, of Jewish music. Among the many CDs he recorded are Piyyutim … engaged with his wife Naomi in a study about the diwan of Yemenite Jews - piyyut-melody-dance. They conducted …
Yehezkiel Braun
… work with modal music – mainly traditional Mizrahi tunes (Yemenite), but also some Ashkenazi ones and Israeli folklore … that there is common basis, a certain pentatonic scale, for Jewish cantilation – Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, and Yemenite alike, … here for an additional biography on the Milken Archive of Jewish Music website. … 44134 … Israeli composer … Yehezkel …