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74. The Fifth of Iyar
… 1954, Kerala Jews celebrated Israeli Independence Day with music and flag-raisings on the fifth day of the Hebrew month … to the almost messianic hopes for the British Mandate expressed during the 1920s in “Our Country” ( song 70 ). It …
Eliezer Goldberg, alias Leyzerke Kremenitser
… Nevertheless, at the age of twenty Eliezer, a self-taught musician, became a hazzan in his hometown. In subsequent … in Krakow (1936) Goldberg’s contemporaries compared his music to the works by the most distinguished cantors of … Eastern European Jewish liturgy and are characterized by expressive cantorial solos often accompanied by choral drones …
55. David and the Spider
… wove a web across its entrance, giving to Saul the impression that no one had entered it recently (Ginzberg 1968, … 24: 3–7), David cuts off the edges of King Saul's garment—expressed in Jewish Malayalam as the fringes of his …
53. Moshe and the Promised Land (Song of the Thirteen Sifrei Torah)
… 9, 1977; III-23. 53c. Kerala women. Recorded by ethnomusicology students from Bar-Ilan University, Moshav … Zacharia wrote, “These Jewish women had the capacity to express in a few words how Moshe’s mind was shattered by the …
41. The Ten Songs of King Solomon
… story about her grandmother’s uncle in Bombay. He once impressed some learned men with whom he was studying, by … melody without clapping in a 1994 recording in Nevatim. The musical version used here was performed by the Nirit …
39-40. Golden Manangĕ + My Dear Mamuchi
… began to kiss And stretched out their hands in happiness, Pressing together in each other’s arms— Moving back and … matter in recent years with several older Paradesis, they expressed the view that no harm is done in publishing them …
8. Kadavumbhagam—Kochi Synagogue Song
… his first encounter with the song, Zacharia immediately expressed his appreciation for its poetic imagery, featuring … and Paradesi paḷḷi songs, a female perspective is expressed in stanza 4, which describes the women’s section of … Lane recorded the song again in 2006 to facilitate its musical transcription. After the interior of this synagogue …
9. Paradesi Synagogue Song
… ( song 1a ). As in songs 7 and 8 , stanza 8 of this song expresses a particularly female experience of the paḷḷi. It …
Rabbi David Buzaglo
… is an opportunity to revive his biography in our website. A musical and rabbinical prodigy since his early days, Rabbi … Buzaglo became a foremost performer of Andalusian Hebrew music in its southern tradition from Marrakesh and … and Dina Danon. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025, 277-295. [2] Zawya is a generic name of many …
Yaakov Huri
… relations dominating the encounters between European ethnomusicologists and their subjects of inquiry in Israel. Our … (from 1952 onwards) sought in Israel for a place where the musical tradition of their ancestors as they knew it was … below) developed into a friendship. This intimacy was expressed in the fact that the Kiwis invited Huri to officiate …