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36. O Woman Dwelling in the Field
… an allegory of the relationship between God and the exiled Jewish people, it is performed as a wedding song in widespread Sephardic communities. In Kerala it might be sung for any …
Rabbi David Buzaglo
… is one of their most iconic twentieth-century Moroccan Jews. The publication of an extensive new essay, [1] the … that differs from the Ashkenazi version and even from other Sephardic and Oriental versions. In real time, three cantors … Poetry and Jewish Liturgy,” The Journal for the Study of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry 2 , no. 1 (2008): 37–62. Meir …
Ezra Barnea
… musician, paytan and cantor, an expert on the Jerusalem Sephardic tradition of which he was one of its true … started to serve from a young age as assistant to notable Sephardic and Oriental cantors of the time. Attentive as he … piyyut singing coalesced with the dominant tradition of the Jews from Aleppo (Syria). In 1948, he began studying at the …
A Flowering Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not just) for Tu BiShvat
… cycle at the end of winter is a relatively newcomer to the Jewish calendar, going back “only” to Mishnaic times. … However, present-day celebrations of this holyday among Sephardic and Oriental Jews with a festive meal similar to … 2019 ) that nevertheless exerted great influence on modern Sephardic and Oriental Jewish ritual practices. This …
8. El Debate de las Flores
… has the merit to praise God. It was widely spread in the Sephardic repertoire of the Ottoman Empire as well as in … on debates, schemes that also appear more than once in the Sephardic repertoire. In the Moroccan version included here, … the Eastern versions. Eventually, a fashion arose among the Jews of North Morocco to parody El debate de las flores with …
Yaakov Huri
… as rabbi. Huri belonged to the Zionist sector of the Jewish community. This sector, unlike the yeshivah students … was the prominent Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (1920-2013), Chief Sephardic Rabbi (1973-1983) and political figure, whom he … political purposes. He received an offer to belong to the Sephardic religious party (SHAS) in exchange for a senior …
5. Mi-Pi El (De Boca del Dio)
… intentions. This practice was preserved and promoted in Sephardic prayer books by Rabbi Haim Yosef David Azulay … of Simhat Torah. Despite its enormous diffusion throughout Jewish communities and its appearance in countless printed … Mi-pi El ) in his manuscript collection of piyyutim and Sephardic songs dated no later than 1790 (Ms. British …
Shabbat and Year Cycle Songs from the Collection of James Levy
… enduring cultural traditions of Gibraltar. Rooted in the Sephardic heritage of the Levy family, this collection … Torah … Sukkot - Tabernacles … Yom Kippur … Purim … Western Sephardic … James Levy … Shabbat and Year Cycle Songs from …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… The Jewish liturgy was never a sealed and unified corpus. Its … order when compared to the predominantly canonical Sephardic and Ashkenazi ones in all their variants. Although aligned mostly with the Western Sephardic tradition, it contains unique texts such as the …
Flory Jagoda
… Flory Jagoda has widely promulgated and enriched the Sephardic musical tradition in the United States. Born in … and musical extended family and a grandmother who sang Sephardic songs and recited traditional prayers. Flory … and honor Flory's life and career. Full biography at the Jewish Women's Archive: Bortnick, Rachel Amado and Betty …