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Pinchas Borenstein
… he held for 30 years. He played a pivotal role in the Jewish musical community in South America, serving as the organizer and …
Sarah Gorby
… , Bessarabia (now Chișinău, Moldova), was a renowned Jewish singer known for performing Yiddish, Russian, and … 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 the …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… very short-lived journal initiated by the World Center for Jewish Music in Palestine. Milhaud, who was a close … religion and there were cases of Gauls becoming Jewish converts. These Jews remained in Provence and … monuments. The Aix synagogue dates back to 1840. Its community is at present presided over by my father [Gad …
Haim Louk
… at Em Habanim school in Casablanca, which integrated Jewish religious studies with general education, including … The curriculum encompassed Talmudic studies, piyyutim (Jewish liturgical poetry), traditional chanting of Psalms, … as a cantor during the High Holy Days for the Ashkenazi community in Tangier, receiving his first remuneration for …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… The Jewish liturgy was never a sealed and unified corpus. Its … on the pulpit to conduct the prayer on behalf of the community led since antiquity to the development of a … tunes differ to a great extent from those of all other Jewish communities. They contain elements of original Jewish …
Lezginka Khasasavyurti
… title sindicates, in the town of Khasavyurt where a sizable Jewish community existed. … 8 … 7 … Makhachkala, Daghestan … The …
1. Oh Lovely Parrot!
… but from the perspectives of literary content and community identity, the nine from Kochi and the two from … payinkiḷi —literally translated as a “green parrot,” and in Jewish Malayalam an epithet for a very beautiful woman— … and two others (songs 2 and 14) points to a tradition of Jewish roots in what is now the small town of Palayur, as …