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My Path to Jewish Music
… musical talents of the Jewish people; indeed, some deny the Jews any capacity for original artistic creation whatsoever. … of the musical culture of antiquity, especially regarding Oriental peoples. Musical historiography is currently … Here, one finds neither a derivative Slavic spirit nor Oriental, but rather a purely authentic Jewish spirit and …
Edith Gerson-Kiwi in Tehran (1961): Documents from a Revealing Journey
… to what she perceived as the most ancient strata of “Oriental music.” By positioning Iran as the pivot of the … music as a center whose modal chant spread eastwards via Oriental Christian liturgies. Put differently, by adopting a … “Orientals” are stereotyped, but also Eastern Europeans (Jews and non-Jews alike, such as “the Russians”). Images of …
Ezra Aharon (“Azuri”): Raphael Yair Elnadav, Itzhak Eliyah Navon and Ezra Aharon
… presence introduces a triangular network connecting Oriental Jewish musicians of different generations. [1] … situated beyond the more intimate circle of the three Oriental musicians. Addressing Navon with an honorific title … framed in the messianic language characteristic of devout Jews. Elnadav was not only a musician trained in Western …
Ezra Aharon (“Azuri”): Ten Years at the Palestine Broadcasting Service (PBS)
… on liturgical sources, the purported Jewish origins of Oriental music, and Ezra’s mastery of both traditional and … reasons refer to the growing geopolitical tensions between Jews and Arabs in British Mandate Palestine or to more …
Ezra Aharon (“Azuri”): Report of the Inauguration of Rabbi Ben-Zion Hai Uzziel with the participation of Ezra Aharon’s children’s choir
… verses that are usually recited by Sephardic and Oriental Jews at the opening of the Havdalah ceremony marking the end … Azoury, Azouri, Elazuri … Arab-Jewish … Iraqi music … Oriental Music Orchestra … ud … Choir … Synagogue … Ezra …
Ezra Aharon (“Azuri”): A Letter from David Avisar to the board of the Association for the Hebrew Oriental Song
… to members of the board of the Association for the Hebrew Oriental Song regarding Ezra Aharon Date of Document: 13 … and activities of the Association for the Hebrew Oriental Song. This letter, sent among others to Itzhak Ben … following the loose use of this epithet among Sephardic Jews to refer to any notable personality. … I am pleased to …
Translating Tropes (and Psalmodies): New Sources on Steve Reich’s Ethnographic Imports
… an ethnographic fieldwork study on Torah readings by “Jews from Bagdad, Kurdistan, and Yemen as well as other oriental Sephardic communities.” This letter and other … make recordings of Yemenite, Bokharik [Bukharian] and other Oriental sephardic cantillations of the Torah. And I mean …
The Modernity of Piyyut Creativity: Ozreni El Hay Lehakhni'a
… of bakkashot and pizmonim for all occasions among Aleppo Jews in all their diasporas. The melody of ‘Ozreni El Hay … 11, 1936, in the framework of his documentation of “Oriental” Jewish traditions. This is one of several … heavy nasal voice, Cohen Melamed attempts to preserve the “Oriental” flavor of melody, though the maqam Hijaz is …
Rabbi David Buzaglo
… is one of their most iconic twentieth-century Moroccan Jews. The publication of an extensive new essay, [1] the … This dramatic step exposed him, among many other Moroccan Jews from rural areas migrating to this emergent modern … the Ashkenazi version and even from other Sephardic and Oriental versions. In real time, three cantors standing on …
Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandate Palestine
… 43068 … Jacobson, Abigail, and Moshe Naor. Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandate Palestine. New York: Brandeis … Press, 2016. … 0 … 2 … 13 … 1 … 43070 … New York … Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandate …
Arab Jews: The Metamorphosis of a Term
… 43044 … Hever, Hannan, and Yehuda Shenhav. "Arab Jews: The Metamorphosis of a Term," Pe'amim: Studies in Oriental Jewry 127 (Spring-Fall 2010): 57-74. … 0 … 21 … 3 … Pe'amim: Studies in Oriental Jewry … 43046 … 57-74 … Arab Jews: The …
Ezra Barnea
… from a young age as assistant to notable Sephardic and Oriental cantors of the time. Attentive as he was to the … a repository of paraliturgical music in which different Oriental traditions of piyyut singing coalesced with the dominant tradition of the Jews from Aleppo (Syria). In 1948, he began studying at the …


