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El buen viar (El baile del cereal)
… ( Weich-Shahak 1989 ). … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean … El buen viar (El …
Jews in Gibraltar and the music of their synagogues
… his sons allows us to explore one of the most challenging Jewish music traditions. Although a Jewish presence in Gibraltar is documented since at least … for the Moroccan Jews. It was named Ets Hayim (Tree of Life; the name of the Talmudic Academy in Amsterdam), but is …
Abraham Beniso
… he was invited to appear in concerts and public events (Jewish and non-Jewish) on a worldwide scale. His travels took him to … as in London and Manchester. Until the last months of his life Hazzan Beniso continued to conduct regular services, …
Linked by Melody: Gibraltar/Moroccan Songs for Passover (and Shavuoth)
… especially north Morocco, centered on episodes from the life of Moses. Most of these songs include as a refrain, or …
‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… Not much is known of the life of Rabbi Mordecai ben Yehudah Dato (1525? – … around the mid-sixteenth century from the circles of Jewish mystics of Safed and spready rapidly throughout the Jewish world, especially to Italy. One key figure in these …
Sarah Harat
… ( The Yemenites: History, Communal Organization, Spiritual Life , ed. Menahem Ben-Sasson, Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, … scholarly education, an unusual feature for young Yemenite Jewish girls at the time. Sarah was exposed to the traditional poetry of the Yemeni Jewish women and to the sacred poetry, the Diwan, performed …
Léibele Schwartz
… , and on the bilingual radio program La Hora Israelita (The Jewish Hour) in the Radio Porteña station. In 1947, at the … Zedek , the third oldest synagogue in New York City and the Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills , one of the oldest … Cantor Leibele Schvartz" Commentary by Edwin Seroussi The life of Léibele Schwartz exemplifies two issues in Jewish …
Sara Levi-Tanai
… to dance and theater in Israel. Her works, deeply rooted in Jewish and Yemenite traditions, significantly shaped … Levi-Tanai was born in Jerusalem to a family of Yemenite Jewish immigrants. Her parents emigrated from Yemen as part … family maintained a rich cultural and religious life, profoundly influencing her artistic sensibilities. …
Joe Elias
… to perform at the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife as one of the first performers of Ladino music in this … 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 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 … books, including a "Commentary on Deuteronomy" and a "Life of Jethro", and it was opened to public religious …