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Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… volunteer in Meseret , a center that supported traditional Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and … troupe . Also named Meseret , the troupe played in local community events in a variety of lineups, and with a full … of an Elite. Pafitt, Tudor & Emanuela Trevisan Sami, eds. London: Routledge. Djerrahian, Gabrielle, 2018, “The ‘End …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the recent passing of … National and University Library Born in the small Jewish community in the village of Cuz (Hungarian: Czuz ; today in … liturgical cycle of the Spanish-Portuguese synagogue from London with the Reverend Eliezer Abinun (1912-1998) and the …
Lekha dodi
… Taken from one of the major anthologies of Curaçao’s Jewish liturgical music that was edited and annotated by … Portuguese melodies that have not been traced back to the community’s musical archive but appeared in Swerling’s … anthology of Hazzan David Aharon de Sola from Amsterdam and London. Performers: Gideon Y. Zelermyer (hazzan) and Raymond …
Lekha dodi
… 1505-1584) that is sung to many different melodies in each Jewish community. The Western Sephardi tradition, however, has … variants are documented at the different Spanish-Portuguese Jewish centers, already appears in musical notation (without …
Berukhim atem qehal emmunai
… eliyahu (the chair of Elijah). This poem is known in most Jewish communities around the Mediterranean. Its text by an … of Saloniki, one of the first cantors of the Portuguese community in Amsterdam. It is most likely that this and many … Eastern Mediterranean were transmitted to the Portuguese community in Amsterdam by this hazzan and poet. This is an …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … in the institutionalization of the music life in the Jewish community of late Ottoman Palestine (Hirschberg 1995, ch. … delivered lectures in Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Vienna and London. In the end, he traveled to New York. In America, he …
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 … in his choir and also enrolled in the conservatory there. London autumn 1900 English version: After a few months I … a school for cantors. He gave me a place in a Bavarian community. Brainin approved my action in becoming untrue to …
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 and prestigious Hakham Isaac Nieto (1702–1774) of London arrived to Gibraltar, establishing there Kahal Kadosh … attribution ) Six hundred Jews comprising a “multicultural” community mixing North African with Western Sephardic …
Abraham Beniso
… January 21, 1923. During World War ІІ he was evacuated to London where he lived for thirteen years all. He studied at … he was invited to appear in concerts and public events (Jewish and non-Jewish) on a worldwide scale. His travels … ceremonies, and serving the communal needs of the Jewish community in Gibraltar. His son and grandsons continue to …
Qinot Performed by Hazzan Abraham Beniso
… in Gibraltar showcase the liturgical repertoire of a Jewish settlement situated on the edge of the Iberian … expulsion of Jews from Spain and Portugal. This distinctive community thrived, acting as a bridge between the traditions … Sephardi tradition … Spanish-Portuguese … Gibraltar … London … Qinot … Western Sephardic … Abraham Beniso … Qinot …