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Almonds and Raisins
… Directed by Russ Karel Yiddish talking cinema burst into the film scene after the release of the first talkie, The Jazz Singer in 1927. Over the next 13 years more than 300 films …
Tipat Mazal (A Bit of Luck)
… Ze'ev Ravach. It is about Zuzu, a popular Jewish Moroccan singer and the hardships that he and his daughter Vivi entail when they immigrate to Israel. Revach and Zehava Ben, who plays …
Representations of Jews in the Musical Theater of the Habsburg Empire (1788-1807)
… Research on the image of the Jew in eighteenth-century literature and theater has not … common musical style of the time. By the mid-1790s Jewish singers and musicians were even performing their traditional …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… Violins, Voice and Jews In the spring of 1897, on the eve of the Russian Orthodox Easter, two Russian … song is quite beautiful, with the violin accompanying the singer in a low register (did he really intend viola in this …
Ein Ke'eloheinu
… A short piyyut from the Ge'onim era (7 th -11 th centuries). In the Ashkenazi Nusach it is recited on Sabbaths and festivals … Zemirot Shabbath of Se'uda Shlishit (third meal). … The singer Morkekhai Ezra sings Ein Keeloheinu, recorded by …
The Tedeschian Community
… [1] The Tedeschian Jews are Ashkenazi Jews who originated in Germany, and immigrated to Italy at the end of the fifteenth century. The name 'Tedeschi' … became Otolongi, Marburger or Marburg, became Morfogo, Singer became Sagra, Lausitz became Luzzati or Luzzato, and …
Responsorial Singing
… is a singing performance style in which a solo singer (leader) and a group of singers (congregation, choir) sing alternately, in response to each other. It is one of the oldest musical forms and common to many peoples, …
With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen
… The Jews of Yemen possess rich musical traditions, which … been of interest to scholars of Jewish music, just as their unique cultural history has attracted the attention of … basic characteristics of the music of the diwan songs. Each singer chose the stanzas that he wanted to sing, as well as …
Hayrana Laih
… Laih is an Egyptian song that was and still is popular in the Arab world, but also has connections to Jewish musical contexts and musicians. The lyrics of Hayrana Laih were written by Ahmed Rami … Karaite Jewish origins composed it in 1932 for the Egyptian singer of Jewish extraction, Leila (or Layla) Mourad …
Yechidi Laderech Li Etse'a
… 726 … 'Alone I set out on the road,' wrote Lermontov, the great Russian poet, in 1841. This line has been sung … it), the Hebrew version is not known at all. Aryeh Uri, the singer in the recording attached below, has never heard this …