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El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… magnificent collection of 78 rpm recordings of Sephardic music is well-known to all those interested in this … Meanwhile, we hope you enjoy this preview. The Algerian Jewish singer Gabriel Sayag recorded the piyyut El shokhen … of multiple cross-cultural interactions characteristic of modern North African Jewish music. The other side of our …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the recent passing of … Avigdor Herzog (1922-2022), one of the founders of modern Jewish music research and documentation in Israel, … Ethnomusicologist Avigdor Herzog was one of the founders of modern Jewish music research and documentation in Israel. …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… The collection of historical Jewish field recordings at the Vernadsky National Library of … the earliest surviving specimens of Middle Eastern Jewish musical traditions. By nature of the technological … and unsystematic archeological sound remains offer the modern listener a partial glimpse into the soundscape of …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… origins and circulation of “Ehad mi yode’a” throughout the Jewish world (including the question of whether it was … remarks refer to the two main sharqi versions documented musically, the ones from the ancient cities of Aleppo … prolific singers we encountered in the ethnography of the modern Hebrew song repertoire in Israel. Levitin, was …
The Idelsohn Project
… Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in … days? What is the link between music and nationalism in the modern Jewish imagination? … … These queries form the core …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… , Judith R. Cohen and Risto Pekka Pennanen In 2008 the Jewish Music Research Centre released a 4-CD package entitled An … of the Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) Cancionero on the Eve of Modern Era,” Estudios sefardies dedicados a la memoria de …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… , Idelsohn projected into this text his own vision of Jewish history and destiny as well as his take on prophecy … seems to animate his writing. Written in a convoluted modern Hebrew prose, Idelsohn uses new Hebrew words coined … his own Gesamtkunstwerk, ‘Yiftah’, as ‘hizzayon negini’ (musical play). Modern Hebrew writers embraced the biblical …
A Liturgy within the Liturgy: The German Torah Service in Past and Present
… für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hannover (HMTMH) And the Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of … Torah service illuminates less-studied aspects of Jewish modernity. Changing patterns of socialization within …
1. Los árboles de almendra (Jacob Algava)
… of this cantiga . It became extremely popular in the modern Ladino repertoire after it appeared in the first … of this song in 1922 (Orfeon 13125, see Bresler ). In most modern popularized versions, the last line of the second … , no. 37; Attias 1972 , no. 80; Hemsi 1995 , no. 92). The music is inspired by the Greek folk song Σε ωραίο περιβóλι …
12. Las horas de la vida (CES)
… in the composition and dissemination of this most famous modern Sephardic song that he may have heard from Spanish … - Ladino … Ladino Songs … Ottoman Empire … Sephardi music … Salonica … Saloniki … Thessaloniki … Eastern …