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33. In the Ship
… The theme of a pleasure trip by boat is grounded in the culture and coastal geography of Kerala. Although there is … reached a wider audience through its performance by the popular Israeli vocalist, Etty BenZaken. Though not herself …
Rabbi David Buzaglo
… the synagogue and Jewish family celebrations, focusing on popular music genres, both Moroccan and other, in addition … in the circles promoting modern Hebrew language and culture in Casablanca. For example, the repertoire of the … that the tune was learned from a famous scene of the very popular American film Waterloo Bridge (1940) that was …
A Flowering Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not just) for Tu BiShvat
… H. Silverman. 1968. “ Las complas de las flores y la poesía popular de los Balcanes,” Sefarad 28: 395-398. Huss, Boaz. … Institute of Jewish Music and the Ministry of Education and Culture. Weich-Shahak, Susana. 2012. “Debates coplísticos …

Dueling Nativities: Zehava Ben Sings Um Kulthum
… 6 … 2 … Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture … 42450 … 202–30 … Durham … Israel … Palestine … Politics … Popular Culture … Israeli … Dueling Nativities: Zehava Ben …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… origin, klezmer tunes, and melodies of Yiddish popular and Hebrew quasi-Hasidic songs that were … by various courts, and thus represented a “pan-Hasidic” popular repertoire. Finally, most of the nigunim included in … and Russian elites, as well as from Ukrainian peasant culture. A close examination of these reference points …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… far beyond this constricting narrative to recover Jewish culture, economics, politics, and society. Yet something of … the Jewish musical imagination in both its scholarly and popular forms. But Idelsohn the man himself remains an … to HOM IX (1932), he writes “In 1918 I needed a popular tune for a performance of my mixed choir in …
65. El baile de los falsos (Sida Musafija)
… This is a Judeo-Spanish contrafact of an extremely popular dance melody of the early twentieth century made … version as La Mattchiche , or Matchiche . Evidently, it was popular in Sarajevo where the linguist Julius Subak recorded … Mediterranean, living under the aegis of French-inspired culture, reacted immediately to this hit and proceeded as …
1. Los árboles de almendra (Jacob Algava)
… recorded version of this cantiga . It became extremely popular in the modern Ladino repertoire after it appeared in … song in 1922 (Orfeon 13125, see Bresler ). In most modern popularized versions, the last line of the second stanza is …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… the forgotten voices of many Sephardic artists extremely popular a century and more ago, but also expands the … >>> “Los judíos españoles de Oriente: Lengua y literatura popular,” Buletin de la Institución Libre de Enseñanza IX, … Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture, 2006) … Molho, Michael 1960 >>> Literatura …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… For example, the transcription made by Idelsohn to the popular wedding song "Maq’helot ‘am", a poem by Mordecai … a version different than the one that eventually became popular in the contemporary practice of the descendants of … agent of the Society for Jewish [original says “Hebrew”] Culture and Ethnography. He was sent to our city on behalf …