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Moshe Cordova
… ma ka m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our … therefore an alternative, even if diminished, center for Sephardic synagogues whose liturgy was based on the Turkish … Yair Elnadav (1921-2012). Elnadav, half Yemenite and half Sephardic, became the caretaker of Cordova’s lore. He …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… serve as hazzan (cantor) of the new, flourishing Portuguese Jewish community. In 1628, he published in his adopted city … which contributed to the early dissemination in Western Sephardic and North African Jewish communities of the new … events. “Purim, Purim, Purim lanu” became ubiquitous in the Sephardic repertoire, to the point that its first verse also …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… of the modern discography. It also barely survived in the Sephardic oral traditions which were recorded in … (CES), a studio ensemble comprising the most popular Sephardic singers of Salonica. It was still mentioned in an … for Performing Arts) conducted by Roumen Tsonev in the CD Jewish Songs from Bulgaria . The song itself starts at …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… 49 … 58 … 710 … Jewish liturgy evolved in a multidirectional process. … 1957 (NLI, Y 3358) These verses are not included in the Sephardic minhag im that we were able to consult and to … to the use of the Italiani minhag in the overwhelmingly Sephardic community of Salonica. Yet, even more intriguing …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… in the order of prayers for the Ninth of Av among the Sephardic and Oriental Jewish communities. The identity of the author is unknown, … ('Poetry as an expression of spiritual reality in the late Sephardic piyyut ,' [In Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… in Hebrew) for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, a fast day in Jewish tradition marking the breach of Jerusalem’s … to “She’eh ne’esar”: the well-entrenched presence of Sephardic poetry in Ashkenazi prayer, and the overall … poets, “She’eh ne’esar” appears more infrequently in Sephardic liturgical music sources. One source shows that in …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long … of Aleppian ḥazzanim on the liturgical styles of the Sephardic communities in Jerusalem (1997), couched his … here: http://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/content/jerusalem-sephardic-tradition (accessed April 2, 2020). The reactions …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common source, … the period) Western musical taste of the small but affluent Sephardic community of the Netherlands in the 18th century. … as a liturgical reshut , an introductory piyyut that Sephardic cantors used to insert at the opening of the …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… Our song of the month concerns a Sephardic song commonly sung on the Passover and Shavuot … volume dedicated to the writer and scholar of Spanish and Sephardic literature, Paloma Díaz Mas. Maftirim, “Adonay hu … connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the … and died on April 30, 2020. He came, as do many Moroccan Jewish performing artists and composers, from a family of … Mwijo’s militant allegiance to the orthodox, right-wing Sephardic party Shas and its leader, Aryeh Deri. Again, the …