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La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… a studio ensemble comprising the most popular Sephardic singers of Salonica. It was still mentioned in an article in … Archive includes another recording of the song, this one by singer Elie Cohen. He recorded a slightly shorter version of …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… popular modern Ladino songs, “Pesah a la mano,” authored by singer, accordionist, composer and teacher Flory Jagoda … without the author’s attribution. The Catalonian singer Rosa Zaragoza recorded the song as “traditional among … ranged from the New England Conservatory in Boston to a singer in from Venezuela , The latter version was released …
Moshe Cordova
… Moshe Cordova Composer, singer, ‘ud and piano player Moshe Cordova (b. Edirne, … the capital city, Cordova pursued his career as a synagogue singer and composer. Parallel to his musical career he … During its heyday in the early twentieth century, Jewish singers from various quarters of Istanbul, as well as from …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… Jewish self-exclusion (such as the famous plot of The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson of 1927) white Jews told themselves …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… of Jerusalem mourns the passing of Moroccan Jewish folk singer Alicia (Benassayag) Bendayan on Friday, June 11, … beginning in the early 1980’s, noted that Alicia was a rare singer from her region due to the fact that she did not rely … this latter period. Alicia’s reputation as an excellent singer of Judeo-Spanish song once again led scholars and …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… that was made famous in a Cairophone 78rpm recording by the singer and movie actress of Syrian-Lebanese origin Siham (or … The song was made famous by its recording by the popular singer Yehoram Gaon, whose family is of Eastern Sephardi …
Yaqub Murad al-‘Amari (aka Yaqub Bar-Nay)
… of the 1950s. After immigration to Israel he worked as a singer, recorded Iraqi maqamat, pastat, and “mainstream” …
Abraham Salman
… a favored accompanist of some of Iraqi's best-known Arab singers. Salman immigrated to Israel in 1950 and was a … Abraham Salman and one of the most distinguished religious singers of Israel, Moshe Habousha, singing a muwashshah. …
Milo Hamamah
… Well-known singer of Iraqi music in Israel. Born in Iraqi, immigrated … Old songs Iraqi music Sources by Esther Warkov. … Iraq … Singer … Milo Hamamah …
Hisqil Qassab
… in Maqam, and he was almost one of the most prominent Iraqi singers from among the Jews of Iraq. 'Hesqil Saul Qassab … Sources by Esther Warkov. … Iraqi maqam reciter and Iraqi singer … Recitation … Maqam … Iraq … Singer … Baghdadi … Hisqil Qassab …