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"Ayumah be-har hamor" (The Beloved on the mountain of myrrh)
… Poem by Shalem Shabazi, signed Alsbab[az] , containing six stanzas in Hebrew and Arabic alternately. The structure … way they are sung, is illustrated very clearly here. The content of the poem and the variety of the melodies to which it …
"Saperi tama temima" (Tell, pure and innocent)
… Se'adia ben Amram, signed with the author's full name. Written in Hebrew, apart from the third and fourth stanzas, … is sung to many melodies. In the two versions recorded here six of these are sung, Menahem Arussi and his ensemble sing …
1. El Atán, el Atado y el Ara (Et Sha'arei Ratzon)
… of Sephardic men and women. Its stanzas consist mostly of six lines, parallel to those of the original Hebrew poem, … vehamizbeaḥ La proba diciena que el Dio potente probó a Abraham es la siguiente: --- Toma a tu hijo, … vehamizbeaḥ Estonces entendió el regalado que el mismo será sacrificado. --- Oh, …
‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… Qabbalat Shabbat . These rituals emerged around the mid-sixteenth century from the circles of Jewish mystics of … in Judeo-Italian – in an Italian volgare , that is, written in Hebrew characters and with many Hebrew loan words. … dodi’, is found in a manuscript dated from the end of the sixteenth or beginning of the seventeenth century, located …
Jews in Gibraltar and the music of their synagogues
… (la Esnoga Grande/the Great Synagogue, attribution ) Six hundred Jews comprising a “multicultural” community … the Jews of Gibraltar suffered during this period, most patently the evacuations during World War II. Still, the …
Ahí, ahí, a los campos (Los campos de la boda + El novio desprendido + El peral de las peras)
… mentioned as a singsong accompanying a game documented in sixteenth-century sources ( Frenk 1987: no. 2131 ) … …
2-7. El parto feliz
… These are six versions of the most well-known copla de parida . A … his wife’s bed and she complains that she had not eaten. The baby’s father is furious with everybody in the …
James Levy
… musical tradition. Many years later, around the age of sixty-five, James embarked on the wonderful project of … for future generations so they would not be forgotten. (See here the dedication) James Levy (left) with his …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… viewing. Idelsohn's Hebrew and English biographies, written in the early 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one … and Baal-t’filloh in the district. When I was less than six months old, my parents moved to Libau, [1] where, due to … was listed in the registry as July 2, 1882. When I was six months old, my parents moved their residence to the city …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Seroussi identified a previously unknown handwritten memoir by Shoshanah Idelsohn, the musicologists’ eldest … father and bid him farewell. At the time [1921] I was only sixteen years old, and [now] I was married and the mother of … was not fat. Father was taller than Mother, approximately six feet tall, robustly built giving an impression of a …