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Last Jews in Yemen
… Larry S. Frisch Tamar Jafroie is an Israeli of Yemenite decent. In search or her roots she decided to visit Yemen and make a film about the Jews who have remained … to exposing the viewer to the both Jewish and Muslim Yemenites' ways of life, the film also presents different …
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
“The songs of Leibu await definitive professional evaluation,” wrote back in 1984 the…
Efraim Yaakov
… 1953 and raised in Nahariya, to a family from Hogeriya in Yemen. He completed his academic degrees in the Department … the M.A. and his doctoral dissertations on Kabbalah among Yemeni Jews under the supervision of Prof. Moshe Idel. In … he studied halakha with two of the greatest rabbis of Yemeni Jewry in Israel: Mary Yosef Kapach and Mary Chaim …

The Diwan Songs of the Jews of Central Yemen
… introductions (in Hebrew and English) on the history of the Yemenite Jews and their poetry. The songs are not translated … Diaspora … … Songs … Song … 1995 … Song … Poetry … Songs … Yemen … Yemenite … Yemenite … אבנר בהט … נעמי בהט-רצון … The Diwan …
About the Jews of Yemen, A Vanishing Culture
… Spector, addresses the history and rituals of the Jews of Yemen, both in Yemen and in Israel. The music and songs of the Yemenite tradition are a main focal point throughout the …

Women’s Songs from the Yemen: their Tonal Structure and Form
… Honor of Curt Sachs … 38301 … 97-103 … New York … … 1965 … Yemenite … Edith (Esther) Gerson Kiwi … Women’s Songs from the Yemen: their Tonal Structure and Form …

Plurivocality in the liturgical music of the Jews of Sana (Yemen)
… of the Jewish Music Research Centre … … 1994 … Analysis … Yemen … Classification … Liturgical music … Yemenite … Plurivocality … San'a … Yemenite … Nurit Ben-Zvi … Yaakov Mazor … Esther Sheinberg … …

Plurivocality in the Liturgical Music of the Jews of San‘a (Yemen)
… Musicologists today agree that the traditional music of the Yemenite Jews has unique stylistic characteristics. These … of certain specific musical elements common to all the Yemenite Jews. The search for these musical elements has … our understanding of the traditional musical styles of the Yemenite Jews. Plurivocality, the simultaneous occurrence …
Yehuda Ratzaby
… Ratzaby was born in the small village Sava'n in central Yemen, a two-hour walk from Sanaa. His father, Rabbi Yeh'ya, … Aviv. He attended the Tachkemoni School (A Talmud Torah for Yemenites children) and the Balfour Gymnasium. In 1936, at … articles in his areas of interest: Israeli literature and Yemeni culture. In 1963, he completed his studies at the …
With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen
… The Jews of Yemen possess rich musical traditions, which have always … half a century after the migration of most of the Jews from Yemen to Israel. Their special contribution to the … such interest. This publication of archival recordings of Yemenite Jewish music is still, therefore, considerably …