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Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… important role in the dissemination in Western Europe and North Africa of the “new” style of religious Hebrew song that … text displays the history of the injunction imposed on the Jews of Persia and their salvation by Esther and Mordecai, …
Shir Bamromim
… mostly comprised of two streams of Judaism: Hassidim and North African Jews. Even though the two groups assemble in close proximity …
Abyadi Ana
… in Jewish communities throughout the Middle East and North Africa. At the center of the ceremony stands the ritual … Some of the most complex Henna ceremonies among Jews took place in Morocco where a special repertoire of …
Andalusian Nuba
… from its origins in 9 th century Spain, its arrival in North African countries in the fifteenth century, and through its … work to music and singing. In a similar manner, the Jews also adopted the Nuba as an essential musical component …
Likhvod Hatanna Haelokai (In Honor of the Holy Tanna)
… CE). These events were first held in Mount Meron, in the northern Galilee, where the graves of the Tanna and his son, … of the house of R. 'Abu, heir to a family of Moroccan Jews who settled in Safed in the nineteenth century, and … Tzvi Friedhaber in: Mehkarim be-Tarbutam Shel Yehudei Tzfon Africa [1990, pp. 181-188]; Zekharia Goren in: Mehkarey Hag …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… by Jewish communities throughout the Middle East and North Africa and, as in the case of the Yemenite community, a … because of the extreme transformation that the Yemenite Jews have undergone since their emigration to Israel. One …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… It is performed by Sephardic and Eastern (Oriental) Jews in a variety of melodies and textual variations. Text … this melody was found in Gardaya, Algeria (see below). North African Traditions The song has a number of North African …
Arba Otiyot
… This CD is dedicated to piyutim (sung sacred poetry) of the Jews of the Tafilalt (Berb. Tāfīlālt) region, in particular …
Music in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah in Northern Africa
… More than any other Jewish group, the Northern African community has adopted the book of the Zohar as a … contemporaries in Safed. … 23257 … North Africa … Jews of North Africa … North African … North African Jews … …
Moshe Attias
… switch to the kemanja (violin played upright in the North African style). Between 1962 and 1970, Mwijo estimated that … he had towards the way the State of Israel treated Moroccan Jews (see more below), he remained a local patriot. A …