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Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and music. The neighborhood had grown around an absorption … be fired at the kiln and put up for sale, and a traditional music and dance troupe . Also named Meseret , the troupe … and Falasha History (1986) situated Falasha liturgy and religious practices in a broader Ethiopian and Christian …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the recordings … in detail in that article. Research of Moroccan Jewish religious music has been largely, if not exclusively, … Maghrebi) resistance to centripetal forces affecting the religious culture of the Jews from Islamic countries in …
Abraham Salman
… the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a child in Baghdad’s school for blind Jewish … in the 1920s and many of the students who showed musical talent were taught to become musicians in order to … between Abraham Salman and one of the most distinguished religious singers of Israel, Moshe Habousha, singing a …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… history is complex, revealing a number of interrelated musical and textual settings. Looking into the information … Jewish family from Bombay who sang this melody to the religious Hebrew text, “Ki eshmerah Shabbat,” a song … of “Fog al-Nakhal”/ “Balini-b balwa” into its private religious repertoire (Manasseh 2012: 132-133). 'Balini …
Salamone Rossi’s HaShirim Asher LiShlomo in its Fourth Centennial (5383-5783)
… Even if you are mildly interested in Jewish music, you cannot avoid Salamone Rossi and his … of polyphonic settings of Hebrew prayers, psalms and other religious poems has not ceased to captivate the imagination of modern musicians, scholars and their audiences. As time passed, …
Moshe "Musa" Berlin
… berlin is a clarinet player and one of the leading Klezmer musicians in Israel. He was born in 1938 in Tel Aviv to a family of Hasidut Modzits . Musa’s musical capabilities were discovered at the age of 6 when he … played in varied Jewish events such as weddings but also in religious events in the Jewish denominations and …
El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… magnificent collection of 78 rpm recordings of Sephardic music is well-known to all those interested in this … interactions characteristic of modern North African Jewish music. The other side of our record contains another … published in 1856) the main late-19th century compendium of religious Hebrew poetry from Western Algeria. As with many …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the recent passing of … the same time, he became active in the Bnei Akiva (national religious) youth movement not only as a leader but also as a … the fabric of the new society. His ties to the national religious movement and his musical and musicological …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… with biblical cantillation, prayers and piyyutim (songs of religious content) for Sabbaths, Holydays and life cycle … the earliest surviving specimens of Middle Eastern Jewish musical traditions. By nature of the technological … opportunity to validate historical theories of musical change that have been based solely on the …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… his own Gesamtkunstwerk, ‘Yiftah’, as ‘hizzayon negini’ (musical play). Modern Hebrew writers embraced the biblical … poet as a prophet-seer and incorporated it into their non-religious Zionist agenda through the figure of ‘ha-tzofe … plays, plural of ‘hizzayon’] of Israel’s history, with musical accompaniment (i.e., ‘hizzayon negini’), ‘that will …