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A Recovered Voice from the Past
Preface
The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German…
1. Oh Lovely Parrot!
Sarah Cohen, Ruby S. Hallegua. Recorded by Barbara Johnson, Kochi, January 2, 1977…
Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… typically sung on the Sabbath (zemirot). It was written in Turkey during the 15 th century by Rabbi Moshe Beggi and is …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… come from local sources as well as from the Palestine and Turkey regions, and were transmitted by Meshulahim (Jewish …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
Revised and annotated translation from the French by Edwin Seroussi
Note: This…
Sholom Secunda
Sholom Secunda was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson…
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… career also took him to Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey. In 1937, while in Syria and Lebanon, he recorded …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
This document, in the form of a synoptic table, incorporates three versions of Idelsohn’…
Mordekhai Zeira
Life
Mordekhai Zeira was born in Kiev, Russia, in 1905. Although he was born to a…