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Rabbi David Buzaglo
… Moroccan Jews from rural areas migrating to this emergent modern metropolis, to new political and educational trends. … of Magen David, an educational organization founded by modernizing, Hebrew-centered, Zionist-oriented European … Or Hama’arav (Light of the Maghreb). [5] The interwar period in Casablanca—from the mid-1920s to the late 1940s, …
El guitarrista + Tienes unos ojos niña + El enamorado engañado (El ke toka la kitara)
… This selection of three modern Spanish couplets is one of the most outstanding … , one of the celebrated Ladino songs of the post- WW II period. These recent versions of El enamorado engañado , …
A Flowering Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not just) for Tu BiShvat
… Huss 2019 ) that nevertheless exerted great influence on modern Sephardic and Oriental Jewish ritual practices. This … musical background that can be traced back to the medieval period. The Sephardic copla El debate de las flores has been … of messianic redemption, a central topic of the early modern Ottoman piyut . El debate de las flores was still …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… There is no doubt that Yosl acquired and preserved this premodern musical tradition, honoring the old eastern-Ashkenazi … then lowers only minimally toward the end of the first half-period (measures 1–8); the second half (measures 9–16) … crossroads between rural areas and bigger towns, between premodern Polish-Lithuanian heritage and the innovations of …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… [in Comtat-Venaissin] was particularly brilliant; in a period before the French opera was born, art musicians from … du Dr C. F. Seybold du 3 août 1891).” [5] Peter Nahon, Modern Judeo-Provençal as Known from Its Sole Textual …
Jews in Gibraltar and the music of their synagogues
… is documented since at least the 14th century, the modern history of the Jews in “the Rock” starts after … synagogue suffered from natural disasters as well as from periodical sieges by the Spaniards. They therefore had to be … upheavals that the Jews of Gibraltar suffered during this period, most patently the evacuations during World War II. …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… visited old-fashioned “Chadorim,” although there were many modern ones in Libau; my father wanted to implant within me … jeshivas, where I remained five years. During that period I acquired a knowledge of Jewish life. Upon my return … [Yiddish] in its Kurlandian variant. Although, Libau was a modern city with German culture, my father picked for me a …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern Jewish musical research. Idelsohn’s life traversed several important arenas of modern Jewish history, including among other things the … of Israel, covered certain aspects of Idelsohn’s Jerusalem period (1907-1921, with some interruptions) with emphasis on …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… and public lectures about the most diverse aspects of the modern Hebrew song (aka Zemer ‘ivri or Shirei Eretz Israel ) in its formative period (c. 1880-1940), Hacohen effectively unveiled (in … his over half-a-century-long career as the “dean of the modern Hebrew song.” Most of these radio programs were …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… article appeared in one of the last issues of this periodical publication before it became the daily Ha-Zvi. … seems to animate his writing. Written in a convoluted modern Hebrew prose, Idelsohn uses new Hebrew words coined … Ben Yehuda. He shows an impressive familiarity with the modern Jewish bookshelf, mentioning in this short publicist …