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"Ahuv mehar hamor natan li morasha" (My beloved from the mountain of Myrrh has given me an inheritance)
… Wedding ḥaduyya , praising the tradition, sanctity and joy of the wedding, signed alphabetically, as is usual in folk … by many singers, and has been the basis of a popular Israeli folk dance. (Bahat, 1983: 427). Hereby follow the …
Sara Levi-Tanai
… Sara Levi-Tanai was an Israeli choreographer, playwright, and lyricist renowned for her significant contributions to dance and theater in Israel. Her works, deeply rooted in Jewish and … immigrants. Her parents emigrated from Yemen as part of the wave of Jewish migration in the late 19th. Despite …
"Ayumah be-har hamor" (The Beloved on the mountain of myrrh)
… , containing six stanzas in Hebrew and Arabic alternately. The structure of each stanza is: four verses of two hemistiches, three verses in the form of a Tawshih and two verses of two hemistiches … illustrate the way in which it has been assimilated into Israeli music over a period of generations. The hallmark of …
Léibele Schwartz
… Kirzner. He began his music studies as a child with his father, Yaakov, who was a cantor. He relocated to Argentine in 1938 with his mother Ana, his father and his twin sisters Clara and Frida. … Borenstein , and on the bilingual radio program La Hora Israelita (The Jewish Hour) in the Radio Porteña station. In …
Endentino (Retahila de sorteo)
… A song used to choose the role each child will play in a game. This rhyme is the origin of one of the most common Israeli children’s rhymes, “Endendino sofalacatino,” which …
8-11. El nacimiento de Abraham- version 1: La mujer de Terah
… We mentioned that the figure of Abraham, the first circumcised Israelite, is central to the brit milah . This copla , …
Esta noche es alabada (La noche alabada)
… One of the coplas de parida sung during the last night before the circumcision. The text stresses … is mentioned as well as the patriarch Abraham, the first Israelite to be circumcised. … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the …
James Levy
… The musical lore of James Levy's family has deep roots in Gibraltar . Toward the end of the 18th century, a man named Hayyim Levy lived … services at the synagogue of the newly created Congregación Israelita Latina of Buenos Aires in 1891 ( The Jewish …
Mapping of German Liturgical Music
… The Jewish Music Research Centre is proud to present a map … and available printed sources of liturgical music form the German-speaking Jewish world. This map derives from the … Sacred Musical Intersections" funded by the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once … Marcus, Amy D. Jerusalem 1913: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict . New York: Viking, 2007, chapter 5. The …