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A Flowering Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not just) for Tu BiShvat
… (Ladino) song that was performed until recently in Northern Morocco around the festive table of Tu BiShvat, the … celebrations of this holyday among Sephardic and Oriental Jews with a festive meal similar to the Passover seder … names of the flowers, to Castilian and/or Haketía (North African Judeo-Spanish) ones. This East to West route in the …
Yaakov Huri
… cultural center of the “Babylonian” (“bavlim” is how Iraqi Jews refer to themselves) Jewish community in downtown … these linguistic groupings, she distinguished between North African, the Levant (Land of Israel, Syria, Turkey) and the …
5. Mi-Pi El (De Boca del Dio)
… that we present here are representative of the Ottoman and North African Sephardic traditions. These are two tunes of very … This collection reflects the synagogue tradition of Ottoman Jews residing in the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… set of such verses included in the liturgical order of the Jews of Provençe, the subject of this Song of the Month, … those from Livorno. However, a closer look shows traces of North-African melodies, probably the result of migrations of Jews …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… there were cases of Gauls becoming Jewish converts. These Jews remained in Provence and together with later comers, … The visiting cantor from Marseille was most probably of North-African origins. [8] Some information on Algerian Jews in …
Léibele Schwartz
… Alter. In addition, Léibele was also cantor at the Polish Jews’ Brit Abraham Synagogue (known as “Shil de Antezana”, … liturgical repertoire shows his deep connection to the North American and European scenes of cantorial art during …
From Destruction to Rebuilding in the Iberian Peninsula
… Peninsula just two centuries after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and Portugal. The article will characterize … it to prosper and become a bridge between West-European and North-African traditions. The article will examine the Sephardi …
Jews in Gibraltar and the music of their synagogues
… Jews in Gibraltar and the music of their synagogues: An … hundred Jews comprising a “multicultural” community mixing North African with Western Sephardic traditions already dwelled in …
Mizmor le-david (Psalm 29)
… communities. The tunes used by the Western Sephardi Jews are strikingly similar to those used at the synagogues … in the past and of the ongoing presence of hazzanim of North African origin in Western Sephardi synagogues. Prior to the …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… (b. 1930 in Buenos Aires), scion to a family from Stawiski (northeast Poland, near Bialystok), refers in this excerpt to … of the Haggadah in Arabic…and they were Hassidic Ashkenazi Jews born in Israel. This means that Goelman’s inquiry had a … אִילַּה הוּא! To briefly illustrate one of the North African versions of “Ehad mi yode’a” in Judeo-Arabic, here …