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Berukhim atem qehal emmunai
… An old Sephardi piyyut for circumcision, it is sung by the … community in Amsterdam by this hazzan and poet. This is an old melody from Amsterdam that Rev. Lopes Cardozo introduced … to the Spanish- Portuguese congregation in New York City. A very close version is transcribed by Aguilar and De …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… intimate scenes from the daily life of the Idelsohn household in Jerusalem. It is written in a flawless modern Hebrew, … transmits the persistent instability of the Idelsohn household in terms of financial security and dwelling locations. … emerging Jewish western neighborhoods outside the Old City are noticeable. Idelsohn’s total, even obsessive, …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… the library of the Hebrew Union College (HUC) in New York City. This German text provides insights into Idelsohn’s … in the district. When I was less than six months old, my parents moved to Libau, [1] where, due to the … the “Chor-shul” and my father used to take me over to that cold, unheated house of worship. The chazan was Abraham …
Jews in Gibraltar and the music of their synagogues
… of Morocco were legally permitted to reside in the city (and reciprocally, British nationals were allowed to … there Kahal Kadosh Sha'ar HaShamayim on Engineer Lane, the oldest synagogue in the city named after its homonym in … Academy) established by Isaac Nieto in Irish Town (the old market place) was converted into a synagogue for the …
Bendigamos
… century to the Spanish-Portuguese community of New York City. Performers: Gideon Y. Zelermyer (hazzan) and Raymond Goldstein (piano) … Judeo-Caribbean Currents: Music of the …
‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… the Qabbalat Shabbat with Dato’s poems originate in the city of Ancona. Dato also composed a long poem connected to … description of Jewish life in a Renaissance Italian household. In the introduction to the poem, Dato writes: קנזוני דא … that is called Kallah [Bride], and our sages and hasidim of old on the arriving of Shabbat, dressed in decorated robes, …
Léibele Schwartz
… that presented Yiddish musicals and vaudevilles during the Golder Era of Yiddish theatre in Buenos Aires. He appeared as … as cantor at the Congregation Shaare Zedek , the third oldest synagogue in New York City and the Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills , one of the …
Sarah Gorby
… born in 1900 in Kishinev , Bessarabia (now Chișinău, Moldova), was a renowned Jewish singer known for performing … songs, which she performed with a profound sense of authenticity and passion. Her discography includes many traditional …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… singing style. Yossef is not to be confused with his much older cousin, Yusuf Zaarur al-Kabbir (“the Great”, … with Zaarur’s daughter ), when Yossef was eight years old and had become passionate about music, he tried to build … ministers and the mayor of Baghdad. After 1948, in his capacity as head of the radio’s music department, he initiated …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… tool for specific inquiries. The primary reason for the scarcity of musicological research on the core central-eastern … these displaced communities retained some aspects of their older musical traditions, the broad censorship in … choose to include melodies historically unrelated to the older nigunim traditions in their corpus: tunes of local …