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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 … 41523 … 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 …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… investigation: “The Hasidic Nigun: Ethos and Melos of a Folk Liturgy.” In these two surveys, focusing on a few … study of a different sub-genre—the Israeli Hasidic dance-nigunim repertoire—by Yaakov Mazor, André Hajdu, and … as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is …