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Naomi Bahat-Ratzon
… Researcher focusing on traditional 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 …
Yigdal elohim hay
… , attributed to Daniel of Rome (14th century), sung in most Jewish communities at the end of the Sabbath-eve or morning … one of Maimonides' Thirteen Articles of Faith. With its 6/8 dance rhythm and the overt-cl os cuadential pattern, this melody recalls German-Dutch folk tunes that are associated with hunting. … The Western …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … because they loved to show their emotions through song, dance and gesturing with their hands. Father stood by his … was [because] the Hebrew songs were sung to foreign folk melodies. I am certain that the kindergarten songs of …
Sarah Harat
… scholarly education, an unusual feature for young Yemenite Jewish girls at the time. Sarah was exposed to the … ensemble that specialized on the staging of Jewish folklore. She declined the invitation by the legendary Yemenite dance and theatre entrepreneur Sarah Levi-Tanai to join the …
Léibele Schwartz
… , and on the bilingual radio program La Hora Israelita (The Jewish Hour) in the Radio Porteña station. In 1947, at the … songs. The Shalosh Arba vocal quartet and the Israeli Dance Ensemble directed by Mario Goldberg also participated … Yom Kipur" (Panzer Records) "Leibele Schwartz in four folksongs" (Sung in Yiddish)/ Leibele Schwartz, vocals; …
Sara Levi-Tanai
… and lyricist renowned for her significant contributions to dance and theater in Israel. Her works, deeply rooted in Jewish and Yemenite traditions, significantly shaped … groundbreaking dance company that combined Yemenite Jewish folklore with contemporary dance forms. As Inbal's artistic …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… very short-lived journal initiated by the World Center for Jewish Music in Palestine. Milhaud, who was a close … the horizon [of Provence]. [3] But, above all, it is the folklore that bears the profound double trace of the Jewish … some Ashkenazi melodies. [3] The farandole is an open-chain dance popular in Provence, similar to the gavotte, jig, and …
Lezginka Khasasavyurti
… Lezginka is a dance form popular in northern Caucasus played mostly on … title sindicates, in the town of Khasavyurt where a sizable Jewish community existed. … 8 … 7 … Makhachkala, Daghestan … The Music of the Mountain Jews … Asia … Folk songs … Judeo-Tat - Juhuri … Mountain Jews … Dance …
1. Oh Lovely Parrot!
… a parrot to tell a story, in the style of classical and folk epics in Malayalam literature. The parrot addressed … payinkiḷi —literally translated as a “green parrot,” and in Jewish Malayalam an epithet for a very beautiful woman— … the only Jewish community whose women performed these dances in recent memory. When Marcia Walerstein-Sibony …