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Israel Rocks: A Journey Through Music of Visions and Divisions
… … Contemporary Israeli Music … Palestinian … Politics … Popular Culture … Popular music … Israel Rocks: A Journey Through Music of …

Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… Moshe Taneni, who also composed melodies to other very popular piyyutim that are sung at paraliturgical events and …
Aharon Amram
… famous by Ofra Haza, who recorded a version that became popular in Europe. Other songs of his include various …
Brakha Tzefira
… field of Israeli folksongs (Zemer Ivri), and produced more 'popular' music in the form of songs usually with piano …
Elohim Eshala
… "Ve-ha-Kohen”). The second song is “Ah! Ofra,” a song popularized by Sara Levy Tanai. Shlomo Dahiyani's version … Moshe Wilensky (NSA K-334) is instructive. As a composer of popular music, Wilensky had no pretensions in his … of Elohim Eshala by Israeli composers of Western art and popular music during the 1950’s. Such arrangements had …
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… the rabbis' reservations, the response verses remained popular, although the variety of responses is diverse and …
Almonds and Raisins
… were made in Yiddish. In Almonds and Raisins (named after a popular Yiddish song), director Russ Karel and narrator … of which star cantor Moyshe Oysher who sings both Yiddish popular songs and Jewish liturgical music. This film is an …
Tipat Mazal (A Bit of Luck)
… is directed by and stars Ze'ev Ravach. It is about Zuzu, a popular Jewish Moroccan singer and the hardships that he and … place in Morocco at a wedding, he sings Abiadi Yana, a popular Moroccan song that is usually sung during Henna …
Hora
… style of the Israeli Hora, was adopted from one of the popular figures of the Freylekhs . Although, from watching …

Society for Jewish Folk Music
… in an encounter that was to have impacts on classical and popular music to this day. Vladimir Stasov, music historian … written in Palestine and later Israel, as well as Israeli popular and folk music. Without their work, there would be … piano (most are for violin). The tune is the basis for a popular Israeli lullaby. “ As ich volt gehat ” (If I had the …