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30. O Proud Singing Bird!
… there? Red are your lips, and your head is green. In the Jewish quarter are two groves of trees. In the pantal … celebrations. Found in notebooks from all three of the Jewish communities living in Kochi, this song’s mention of … “parrot song” and the “circle dance” genres of Malayalam literature. In this case, the female parrot is informed of …
29. The Noble Bridegroom
… whose synagogues are located at opposite ends of the long Jewish street. For one familiar with the area, it is easy to … Street, accompanied by music and drumming from bands of non-Jewish musicians. Zacharia appreciates the rich poetry of … a type of cuckoo associated with romantic love in Indian literature. The kunkum paste adorning the bridegroom is …
Hadas Rishony
… on several projects led by Professor Edwin Seroussi at the Jewish Musical Research Center and was also a teaching … to develop in adulthood; however, evidence in the literature indicates that some individuals, both musicians …
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 … is highlighted: Textless songs have probably been common in Jewish life for a long time. This could be connected with … use of the Yiddish language, which earlier dominated literature for women and “men like women” (i.e., illiterate …
1. Oh Lovely Parrot!
… in the style of classical and folk epics in Malayalam literature. The parrot addressed here is a special one, a … 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 …
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 of the wave of Jewish migration in the late 19th. Despite significant …
Yoel Greenberg
… is Emanuel Alexandre Chair of musicology and head of the Jewish Music Research Centre in the Hebrew University, … a self-organizing system, interactions of music, arts and literature in the early twentieth century, and computerized recognition of musical style. His research on Jewish music includes articles on Jewish composers in early …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one … the special favor of the Duke who allowed her, as the only Jewish pupil, to visit his German primary school. All her … beginning of harmony. He acquainted me with the Chazanic literature of Weintraub, Sulzer, Lewandowski and others. He …
Miyom qadmon
… the study of sacred texts that characterized the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam. The poem was composed by … of songs performed at the gatherings of the diverse Jewish confraternities in Amsterdam. This specific song was … of a society that was dedicated to the study of Hebrew literature. The numerical value of the first letters of the …
Kol beru’e ma’ala umata
… Prof. Palache was a lecturer of Hebrew Language and Literature at the University of Amsterdam since 1924, son of … Prof. Palache was the Parnas Presidente of the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam before World War II. According … services in the Italian tradition of Padua (see: Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection , …