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Rabbi David Buzaglo
… Rabbi David Buzaglo is one of their most iconic twentieth-century Moroccan Jews. The … great poetic dexterity. This practice was common in the Ottoman Empire but much less so in the Maghreb. By setting text to …
Malandanzas del asker (Avre los ogios)
… This is one of the Ladino songs about the "askerlik" - the military service forced on the Jews of the Ottoman Empire since 1908. The rare versions of this song documented …
8. El Debate de las Flores
… social functions in which various flowers boast of their virtues to show that each of them has the merit to … It was widely spread in the Sephardic repertoire of the Ottoman Empire as well as in northern Morocco. In Morocco it is sung …
Becoming Hebrew
… 2 … 10 … 1 … 42609 … New York … The Creation of a Jewish National Culture in Ottoman Palestine … Becoming Hebrew …
Time Off: Entertainment, Games and Pass Times in Palestine Between the End of the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate
… Entertainment, Games and Pass Times in Palestine Between the End of the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate …
5. Mi-Pi El (De Boca del Dio)
… God’s Mouth,’ meaning ‘From God’s Voice’) This is perhaps the best-known piyyut for the holiday of Simhat Torah, which … This seems to indicate that ‘Mi-pi El’ originated in the Ottoman space not long before the early 18th century. Be as … to have been in the easternmost margins of the Ottoman Empire, namely Palestine, Syria and Iraq and its reception …
Noche de Alḥad (Al Dio alto)
… , this traditional Sephardi copla for havdalah (outset of the Sabbath) was very popular throughout the Ottoman Empire, appearing in song collections from the early …
Music of the Jews of Monastir
… 10 … 7 … 41109 … Throughout the Ottoman Era, Jews, mostly of Sephardic origin, inhabited the … … Judeo-Spanish - Ladino … Monastir … Ottoman Empire … Sephardi music … Sephardi … Music of the Jews of …
Sarah “Shorty” Elias
… Sarah “Shorty” Elias grew up in Ottoman Monastir, where she 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 …
Joe Elias
… Joe Elias was born into a Sephardic family in Brooklyn. The youngest of seven children, Joe learned his songs on his mother’s knee, Sarah Elias . As a schoolteacher in the 1960’s, he would collect songs from the grandparents of …