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Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… salvation by Esther and Mordecai, stressing the popular joy traditionally expressed on Purim for this miraculous turn of … life, became one of the most remarkable folk performers of traditional Sephardic songs within the American … patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. Purim, Purim Lanu (Ladino …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From … practice was through exploring the variations between the traditional Iraqi maqam tradition from Baghdad and what she …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … forms of choral accompaniment), partially based on traditional tunes or consisting of originally composed … and the disciplining of an orally transmitted traditional music lore through a theoretical discourse. …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… working as a volunteer in Meseret , a center that supported traditional Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and music. The neighborhood had grown around an absorption … The center became home to older men who spun cloth on traditional weaving looms; women who spun thread unto …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… of its contents in the wider context of Hasidic music research is a desideratum. The present essay, focusing … C. The structural permutation of sections is a hallmark of traditional Hassidic nign “composition.” While there are … song”), is saturated with Hassidic nigunim. [9] These traditional Hassidic melodies were adapted to new texts and …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the recordings … is a staple of the Moroccan liturgy in comparison to other traditional Jewish communities where a soloist ḥazzan stands … purposes, be it the qaddish or any other text that is traditionally musicalized (that is set to a distinct musical …
Salim Shibith (Salim Ha-Cohen)
… of the maqam , wrote Na‘im Twayna in his series on Iraqi musicians in Al-Anba’ newspaper (June 30, 1978). It is … Shibith, like others, had few opportunities to perform the traditional Iraqi repertoire. Fortunately, Israel Radio … , read The Urban Repertoire of Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel: Instrumental Improvisation …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… in the Middle East. It is a muwwashshah, “girdle” song, a traditional strophic Arabic form characterized by its … history is complex, revealing a number of interrelated musical and textual settings. Looking into the information … 1987: 9, 109; Dori 2021). Tassa’s performance blends the traditional Iraqi rendition of the song by the Kuwaitys with …
Hin’ni Haaniyah Mimaas (Here I am, poor in worthy deeds)
… (mezzo-soprano), Aya Schleifer (piano) From the event “Traditional Music for the Reform Synagogue” At the World Congress of … Schleifer … Female cantors … Reform … Reform Judaism … Traditional music … Rosh Hashanah … Yom Kippur … Hin’ni …
El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… magnificent collection of 78 rpm recordings of Sephardic music is well-known to all those interested in this … interactions characteristic of modern North African Jewish music. The other side of our record contains another … The skillful pianist accompanies him in unison in the traditional Andalusian style from Western Algeria. While the …