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Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of Moroccan Jewish folk singer Alicia (Benassayag) Bendayan on … within her memory the Judeo-Spanish songs of the North Moroccan Sephardic community, playing a substantial role in … Ballads, Wedding Songs, and Piyyutim of the Sephardic Jews of Tetuan and Tangier, Morocco (1983). Alicia’s adult …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… his A Voice Still Heard: The Sacred Song of the Ashkenazic Jews (University Park and London, 1976, pp. 100-101) … in the Tikhkal , the general prayer book of the Yemenites Jews. In the course of time the text of “She’eh ne’esar” … 4 below) and included in his rich oral documentation of the Moroccan Jewish liturgy (1960), is an exception confirming …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… in the sixteenth century that continues amongst Syrian Jews today (Kligman 2009; Shelemay 1998). “ Yom Yom Odeh ” … pizmonim. Many of them continue to be sung by Syrian Jews around the world, where Taboush’s legacy, his persona … worshipers and ḥazzanim from the city’s Persian, Kurdish, Moroccan and other Middle Eastern Jewish communities. They …
Moshe Attias
… one of the most distinguished and long-standing Moroccan musicians in Israel. This short note prepared by … in 1937 and died on April 30, 2020. He came, as do many Moroccan Jewish performing artists and composers, from a … he had towards the way the State of Israel treated Moroccan Jews (see more below), he remained a local patriot. A …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… marks the end of the bakkashot season according to the Moroccan tradition, of which Rabbi Atiyah was one of its … disciples, single-handedly maintained and kept alive the Moroccan Jewish singing tradition in Israel against all … also my partner in curating Sacred Music of the Moroccan Jews , released by Rounder Records in 2000 , an edition of …
Arba Otiyot
… This CD is dedicated to piyutim (sung sacred poetry) of the Jews of the Tafilalt (Berb. Tāfīlālt) region, in particular … we added piyutim by other authors, which are related to the Moroccan Jewish tradition. The concept and performance of … … Choirs, Choral … 5 … 2017 … Piyyut … Piyyutim … Morocco … Moroccan … Contemporary Israeli Music … Israeli Choirs … …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… previous years, in order to analyze two new recordings, one Moroccan and one Yemenite, that have recently become … period, apparently predating its use among Sephardic Jews. Manuscript 85 of the Archivio Storico Comunale of … be envisioned by these two pioneers of Jewish musicology. A Moroccan version Let us listen to a Moroccan version …

Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… locus ” for discourses that embody “musical corpora of the Jews with what can be called the ‘aura of antiquity’” (47). … in the practice among readers in the Eastern Ashkenazi and Moroccan traditions in Israel, with the Jerusalem-Sephardi … that the Ashkenazi tradition is the least variable, the Moroccan tradition is more variable, and the …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… because of the extreme transformation that the Yemenite Jews have undergone since their emigration to Israel. One … Ana ,’ which is still performed in Israel as part of the Moroccan Jewish h enna ceremonies. The timing of the …
La Gallarda matadora
… Hebrew name for the Iberian Peninsula. The Sephardic Jews' ancestors were finally expelled from Spain in 1492 and … melodies of the Sephardic Jews from Morocco are related to Moroccan music. Therefore one could assume pre-15 th century … communities such as in Greece and Turkey, and in the North-Moroccan communities. [1] Although the first version has …