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Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… life, she treasured within her memory the Judeo-Spanish songs of the North Moroccan Sephardic community, playing a … During her youth, she was surrounded by the women’s songs of the Jewish community of Tetuan. Romances (ballads) … canciones de cuna , or lullabies, while endechas (mourning songs), wedding songs, and coplas would accompany holidays …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… chapter about the African-American appropriation of Jewish songs and themes, as though Smith had not been a Jew. If not … of jazz composition as it emerged from some of the Jewish songwriters of Tin Pan Alley and vaudeville, most notably … In those very early years, composers wrote “ethnic” songs for ethnic stage characters to perform, including …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… Jewish Music … Ashkenazi people … 6 … 2020 … Folk songs … Joachim Stutschewsky … Cello - Violoncello … Klezmer …
Moshe Cordova
… piyyutim (religious poems), Shirei Israel be-Eretz Haqedem “Songs of Israel in the East,” together with Binyamin Bekhar … Leo Levi interviewed Cordova in Tel Aviv. Three songs are included in Levi’s precious recording. One of them …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… 25 … 41041 … Back in 2008 we dedicated our Song of the Month to the popular piyyut “Purim, Purim, Purim … Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew song, which had developed starting in the sixteenth century … the opening line of one of the most popular modern Ladino songs, “Pesah a la mano,” authored by singer, accordionist, …
Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… This Song of the Month for Hanukkah, in video lecture format, …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… rehash of the legends by Michael Freedland (1974) the songwriter’s major biographies had to wait for his death. … given Berlin’s permanent place in the pantheon of American song, if not song in general. It's now 30 years since Berlin’s death, and …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… show, among many other matters, that widely popular songs from the turn of the 20th century are absent from late … of these same repertoires. The Ladino or Judeo-Spanish song repertoire is an exemplary example of this phenomenon. La galana , a Judeo-Spanish song included in the new publication of the JMRC, Eastern …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… identity. In fact, they comprise a refrain dividing the song into “strophes,” a peculiar feature discussed widely in … Biography of Salamone Rossi at the JMRC website Song of the month: Elohim hashivenu - A liturgical insertion …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis … collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics makes public a forgotten source from … (1874–1954), a devoted collector and scholar of folk songs. In addition to the Latvian folk songs Melngailis …