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Shmuel Zalmanov
… He was a yeshiva administrator in Warsaw and Vilna, and the director of the "Nihoah" choir (Chabad Hasidic melodies). He is best known for his editing of the Sefer HaNiggunim . At the request of Rabbi Yosef …
Flory Jagoda
… composer Flory Jagoda has widely promulgated and enriched the Sephardic musical tradition in the United States. Born in 1923, in Sarajevo, she was raised … a Ladino-speaking and musical extended family and a grandmother who sang Sephardic songs and recited traditional …
Haim Louk
… to a family originally from Mogador ( Essaouira ). At the age of four, he lost his father, and his mother supported the family by working as a housekeeper. Louk …
Netanel Cohen (Musai)
… specializing in Jewish music, with a particular emphasis on the liturgical and piyyut traditions of Eastern Jewish communities. He holds a PhD in Musicology from the Hebrew University, where his dissertation, under the supervision of Professor Edwin Seroussi, explored the …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… Revised and annotated translation from the French by Edwin Seroussi Note: This article appeared in … French and German in Musica Hebraica (1-2 [1938]: 18-20), the very short-lived journal initiated by the World Center for Jewish Music in Palestine. Milhaud, who …
The Liturgical Music of the Provencal Jews (old Comtat Venaissin)
… On the occasion of the renewed interest on the opera “Esther de Carpentras” by French Jewish composer Darius Milhaud …
Durme durme mi alma donzella
… The Ladino cantiga "Durme Durme" is performed by Hazzan … recital at Oklahoma City University, USA. Lazarus arranged the piece for cantor, violin, and guitar. This recording is likely the latest known recording of Hazzan Abraham Beniso. See …
Amsterdam Concert (1975)
… 41132 … Amsterdam … This concert was held in celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Esnoga, the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam. The concert included …
Music of the Jews of Monastir
… 10 … 7 … 41109 … Throughout the Ottoman Era, Jews, mostly of Sephardic origin, inhabited the city of Monastir (today, Bitola, Republic of North Macedonia). After World War I, most of these Jews moved to North and South America as well as …
Sarah “Shorty” Elias
… worked as a house maid from a young age. In 1911, she left the Ottoman Empire for New York in the United States. There, she met and married Rabbi David Elias, a member of …