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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 … 41523 … Makhachkala, …
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 …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… to the richness of the religious vocal repertoire of his community and to the Iraqi Arab singing style. Yossef is not … This generational tension between well-to-do Baghdadi Jewish families and their youngsters who loved music and … musicians—still prevalent in early-twentieth century Iraqi Jewish society—as well the shifts in attitudes towards …
5. Mi-Pi El (De Boca del Dio)
… of Simhat Torah. Despite its enormous diffusion throughout Jewish communities and its appearance in countless printed … apparently indicating the importance attributed by this community to this song in the annual cycle. As the score … Hakawod and the Liturgical Music Reforms in the Sephardi Community in Vienna , ca. 1881-1925: A Study of Change in …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is … authorship was considered insignificant by the performing community. Nigunim ascribed to Rebbes, quite diversified in … is highlighted: Textless songs have probably been common in Jewish life for a long time. This could be connected with …
Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine
… 9505 … 40 … 1 … 42446 … Oxford … Jewish community of Palestine … Jewish music … Israeli … Jehoash Hirshberg … Music in the …