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Rabbi David Buzaglo
… David Buzaglo is one of their most iconic twentieth-century Moroccan Jews. The publication of an extensive new essay, [1] the … has grown exponentially in the collective memory of the Moroccan Jewish diaspora. [3] After receiving a traditional …
A Flowering Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not just) for Tu BiShvat
… celebrations of this holyday among Sephardic and Oriental Jews with a festive meal similar to the Passover seder … de Tu biShvat”). On the occasion of the publication of the Moroccan version of El debate de las flores in the JMRC’s … of El debate de las flores , usually untitled, is the Moroccan one. Its earliest version appears in fols. 15a-b of …
8. El Debate de las Flores
… appear more than once in the Sephardic repertoire. In the Moroccan version included here, the names of flowers that … with almizcle and zanbak (Tr. lily) with azucena . The Moroccan version also contains stanzas that do not appear in … the Eastern versions. Eventually, a fashion arose among the Jews of North Morocco to parody El debate de las flores with …
Linked by Melody: Gibraltar/Moroccan Songs for Passover (and Shavuoth)
… Meal and/or the Hallel. Levy sings the distinctive North Moroccan version, the area where this romance is fondly … Sabbath zemirot that are more characteristic of Ashkenazi Jews. A more detailed inquiry into these texts reveals an … … 9415 … Gibraltar … Passover … Pesach … Birkat Hamazon … Moroccan … Linked by Melody: Gibraltar/Moroccan Songs for …
Jews in Gibraltar and the music of their synagogues
… Jews in Gibraltar and the music of their synagogues: An … old market place) was converted into a synagogue for the Moroccan Jews. It was named Ets Hayim (Tree of Life; the … the Great Synagogue had reservations about the less formal Moroccan style of services in comparison to the formality of …
James Levy
… settled in Argentina together with a sizeable group of Moroccan and Gibraltar Jews who took advantage of that country’s immigration policies. He became the first "Moroccan" cantor to lead High Holidays services at the …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… Upon Zangwill’s question, how can I return to Russia, where Jews are so maltreated, I answered that I prefer to be with … advice of relatives, to London intending to enroll at the Jews’ College where I would begin to study English. However, … Persians, Aleppoites, Daghestanis, Bukharans, Sefardim, Moroccans, and the various Ashkenazim, and also the Hasidim. …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… in the contemporary practice of the descendants of Aleppo Jews in Jerusalem (see example 2). Example 1: "Maq’helot … fragments. Lurie’s recordings reflect musical practices of Jews from the Ottoman provinces of Greater Syria (Aleppo and … One informant, Yosef ben David Shalom represented the Moroccan (“Ma’aravi” or “Mughrabi” in the terminology of …
El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… song, La’ad aromimkha malki . Crossing boundaries between Jews and Muslims, between Jews from the Eastern and Western … Besides Shiv h ei Elohim our song is included in the Moroccan Andalusian Hebrew compilations Roni veSim h i … Lekh Lekha , p. 130) a compendium used for the singing of Moroccan baqqashot . Rabbi Atiya attributed the poem to R. …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… of the article “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied … recordings analyzed in detail in that article. Research of Moroccan Jewish religious music has been largely, if not … issues emerged during early fieldwork among Moroccan Jews in Israel, it was always a peripheral topic, and mostly …