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El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… cross-cultural interactions characteristic of modern North African Jewish music. The other side of our record contains … song, La’ad aromimkha malki . Crossing boundaries between Jews and Muslims, between Jews from the Eastern and Western …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… during Operation Moses of 1984-5, when over 6,000 Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel) were airlifted from refugee camps in … en-route in the desert between their points of origin in Northern Ethiopia and Sudan, or in the overcrowded, … of reinventing their Ethiopianness, and of mobilizing the African and Ethiopian diasporas to stake a claim for respect …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… treasured within her memory the Judeo-Spanish songs of the North Moroccan Sephardic community, playing a substantial … Ballads, Wedding Songs, and Piyyutim of the Sephardic Jews of Tetuan and Tangier, Morocco (1983). Alicia’s adult … de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto de Estudios Africanos, 1952. Larrea Palacín, Arcadio de. Cancionero …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… to the early dissemination in Western Sephardic and North African Jewish communities of the new style of religious … in “Imrei no’am,” recounts the injunction imposed on the Jews of Persia and their salvation by Esther and Mordecai, …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… Sephardic communities, emphasizing Spanish-Portuguese and North African versions in the article entitled “Songs of Grief … maqam-oriented school of the Ades Synagogue of the Aleppan Jews. For many years, Nehemiah was cantor and preacher at …
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 ” … in 1948 gave rise to the en masse migration of Jews from North Africa and the Near East, thereby dislocating almost … and Representation.” Ph.D. diss., School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Doubleday, Veronica. 1999. “The …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… repertoire and other sources throughout the Mediterranean. Northern Italy and “Las tablas de la Ley” Two cities in … in Jerusalem and of the Messianic era. Two of these North-African Messianic strophes actually correspond to the … “ Ballads, wedding songs, and piyyutim of the Sephardic Jews of Tetuan and Morocco ,” Track 09, Folkways Records, …
Moshe Attias
… switch to the kemanja (violin played upright in the North African style). Between 1962 and 1970, Mwijo estimated that … he had towards the way the State of Israel treated Moroccan Jews (see more below), he remained a local patriot. A …
Music in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah in Northern Africa
… More than any other Jewish group, the Northern African community has adopted the book of the Zohar as a … of his illustrious contemporaries in Safed. … North African Jews … Jews of North Africa … 23257 … North Africa … Jews of …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… It is performed by Sephardic and Eastern (Oriental) Jews in a variety of melodies and textual variations. Text … this melody was found in Gardaya, Algeria (see below). North African Traditions The song has a number of North African …