(244 results found)
Shoshana Ben-Dor
… she studied the culture and language of the Ethiopian community. Ben-Dor is the director in Israel of North … . See: The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer … Researcher of Ethiopian Jewry … …
Naomi Bahat-Ratzon
… and folk dance of various cultures, among them the Druze community in the villages of the Golan Heights, and the Jewish communities of Yemen, to which she dedicated the … to the research of the music and dance of the Yemenite Jewish communities in Israel. Along with Bahat they edited …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… There are scholars of Jewish and Israeli culture whose crucial contributions … the oral testimonies of veterans of the Yishuv (the Jewish community of Palestine prior to the establishment of …
Lekha dodi
… 1505-1584) that is sung to many different melodies in each Jewish community. The Western Sephardi tradition, however, has … variants are documented at the different Spanish-Portuguese Jewish centers, already appears in musical notation (without …
Kol beru’e ma’ala umata
… Prof. Palache was the Parnas Presidente of the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam before World War II. According to … services in the Italian tradition of Padua (see: Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection , …
Miyom qadmon
… the study of sacred texts that characterized the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam. The poem was composed by Moshe de … of songs performed at the gatherings of the diverse Jewish confraternities in Amsterdam. This specific song was …
Berukhim atem qehal emmunai
… eliyahu (the chair of Elijah). This poem is known in most Jewish communities around the Mediterranean. Its text by an … of Saloniki, one of the first cantors of the Portuguese community in Amsterdam. It is most likely that this and many … Eastern Mediterranean were transmitted to the Portuguese community in Amsterdam by this hazzan and poet. This is an …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … and saints, or Leidensgeschichte and Geistesgeschichte . Jewish Studies in this formulation consisted of the … in the institutionalization of the music life in the Jewish community of late Ottoman Palestine (Hirschberg 1995, ch. …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one … the special favor of the Duke who allowed her, as the only Jewish pupil, to visit his German primary school. All her … a school for cantors. He gave me a place in a Bavarian community. Brainin approved my action in becoming untrue to …
James Levy
… Congregación Israelita Latina of Buenos Aires in 1891 ( The Jewish Presence in Latin America ). He also composed … 40946 … Recorder of the musical tradition of the Gibraltar community … Ladino, Judeo-Spanish – Ladino, Ladino - …