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A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… This is a short extract of the article “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is … that was made famous in a Cairophone 78rpm recording by the singer and movie actress of Syrian-Lebanese origin Siham (or …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of Moroccan Jewish folk singer Alicia (Benassayag) Bendayan on Friday, June 11, …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… first stop for those wishing to have some understanding of the complicated subject. Indeed, nearly everything about the history of Jews and jazz music is difficult to … Jewish self-exclusion (such as the famous plot of The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson of 1927) white Jews told themselves …
Moshe Cordova
… Moshe Cordova Composer, singer, ‘ud and piano player Moshe Cordova (b. Edirne, … 1881 – d. Tel Aviv, Israel, 22.12.1965) was a master of the Turkish ma ka m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge about Cordova’s early …
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 lanu” (“Purim, … popular modern Ladino songs, “Pesah a la mano,” authored by singer, accordionist, composer and teacher Flory Jagoda …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… 2 … 10 … 708 … The 78rpm recordings that are still emerging from archives around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. … a studio ensemble comprising the most popular Sephardic singers of Salonica. It was still mentioned in an article in …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis collection . Middleton WI: A-R … field work alone contained 120 songs performed by Jewish singers (p. xxiv), but most of them were not included in the …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… in a car, driving on a mountain road that winds down along the Lebanese coastline, overlooking the Mediterranean seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a … trademark sign, the gazelle, and the name of the singer and the song written in Arabic, Hebrew and English. …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent passing of Cheikh Mwijo (1937-2020), one of the … Although presented in the Hebrew press as a payytan (singer of religious poetry), Cheikh Mwijo rarely recorded …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… songs for Passover offers us a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness … is preserved at the Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive. The singer is identified in the tape’s box as “Lerer” Zakhar. …