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Last Jews in Yemen

… there. In addition to exposing the viewer to the both Jewish and Muslim Yemenites' ways of life, the film also presents different Yemenite Jewish musical traditions as performed in Yemen of the mid 1990s. … Shabazi … Diwan … Operation Magic Carpet … Diasporic Jewish Culture … Last Jews in Yemen …

Abyadi Ana

… to the wedding ceremony (usually on the day before) in Jewish communities throughout the Middle East and North … already found in the Bronze Era and they permeated to all cultures in the geographical areas where the henna plant … Jews immigrants in Israel. [4] Abyadi Ana is part of the musical repertoire sung by Moroccan Jewish women to …

Socalled Movie

… Directed by Garry Beitel Josh Dolgin, aka Socalled, is a Jewish Canadian musician from Quebec. He has come to … attention in recent years for his unique fusion of eclectic musical genres and traditions, specifically the meeting … … Funk … David Krakauer … Ukraine … Irving Fields … Popular Culture … Diasporic Jewish Culture … Socalled Movie …

Communal singing

… a day's work to sing communally. As the years passed, this musical activity reached the cities, and communal … especially after the fourth and fifth Aliyot [1924-1939] (Jewish immigrations to Palestine), specifically in large … in 1948, which became an important part of the Israeli culture and history. … 686 … Einat Saruf … Kahal … Israeli …

The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam

… known by its Ladino name, Esnoga, and is one of the Dutch Jewish community's most important structures. Its history … cultural developments of the Dutch state as well as Jewish culture and history. Among the Jewish leaders were rabbis, … them as exotic examples of non-Western music. Attempts at musical notation occurred in a number of Sephardic …

Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German

… status it acquired exemplify the mechanisms through which Jewish modernity articulated itself on the basis of German aesthetics, in this case poetic and musical. Dort wo die Zeder also shows how the Zionist … could as well be borrowed from the surrounding non-Jewish cultures. The song is reprinted with music in the important …

Andalusian Nuba

… immigrated to Al-Andalus (Muslim Spain), and founded a new musical school in Cordoba, in the court of the Umayyads in … between Al-Andalus and North Africa, and the Andalusian culture was known in and accepted in North Africa. Today … Andalusian tradition that were only preserved through the Jewish traditions. It is also important to note that …

Coplas - Complas

… A unique genre in the Sephardic Jews musical tradition.. Strophic poems, with various but very … many more up to our century. Their subjects related to the Jewish festivities of the year cycle, or expressed the … shows clearly the influence of the sorrounding musical cultures. Many coplas were published (in Saloniki, …

Had Gadya

… of intensive study by a distinguished gallery of modern Jewish and non-Jewish scholars since the early … the modern fate of the song with in contemporary Israeli musical repertoire. H ad Gadya was incorporated to the … attesting for its widespread appeal in non-Jewish cultures in Europe and beyond. Among these famous parallels …