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Jo Amar
In the early 1960’s, Jo Amar was a Mizrahi music star. He combined ‘paytanut’ and poetry…
Leó Weiner
Leó Weiner was born in Budapest. He had his first music and piano lessons from his…
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… in collaboration with Uri Amram. This book includes Hebrew poems created through the process of contrafactum: …
Israeli folksongs
* This entry is a summarized version of the full artice about Israeli folksongs by…
Dudu Barak
Dudu Barak is a writer of Israeli folk songs. He was born in Jerusalem in 1948 and grew…
Shmerke Kaczerginski
Born in Vilna to a poor family and educated at that city’s Talmud Torah, Shmerke…
15. Cinco años ya va hacer (CES)
One of the widespread Judeo-Spanish songs of the early twentieth century that…
Karev Yom
… The rest of the texts are by canonical poets whose poems were set to music by composers of the period, such as … the Byzantine period. It corresponds to a series of seven poems for the Sabbath in which Exodus 12, 29 (“At …