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El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… Meanwhile, we hope you enjoy this preview. The Algerian Jewish singer Gabriel Sayag recorded the piyyut El shokhen … The skillful pianist accompanies him in unison in the traditional Andalusian style from Western Algeria. While the … of the Genizah text; to the Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Society for making the digitization of Genizah manuscripts …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the recent passing of … southern border with Hungary) on June 14, 1922 to a traditional Jewish family, Herzog was introduced to music by … to find a place for himself in the post-war Hungarian society, he fulfilled his dream and settled in the …
Sarah Harat
… scholarly education, an unusual feature for young Yemenite Jewish girls at the time. Sarah was exposed to the traditional poetry of the Yemeni Jewish women and to the … to an international event titled “Sacred Sounds: Belief and Society ,” held by the Center for Folklore and Cultural …
2. El Merecimiento de Isaac (Im Afes Rova Haqen)
… this calamity, God can trust the faithfulness of the Jewish people as Abraham demonstrated by obeying the order … poem consists of quatrains of rhymed verses. The elaborate traditional Sephardic melody of this Hebrew poem is applied … and Their Contribution to the Development of the Modern Society ed. Dumitru Hîncu et al. Bucharest: Federation of …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… The Jewish liturgy was never a sealed and unified corpus. Its … from Spain…They did not mingle with German Jews…Their traditional tunes differ to a great extent from those of all … [1] Translations according to Jewish Publication Society, 1985 [2] See: Philippe Bobichon, Manuscrits en …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… most Baghdadi Jews, Zaarur attended synagogue services and traditional family celebrations from an early age, which … This generational tension between well-to-do Baghdadi Jewish families and their youngsters who loved music and … prevalent in early-twentieth century Iraqi Jewish society—as well the shifts in attitudes towards music-making …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… in eastern Europe, where the art of klezmer, i.e., the traditional instrumentalist, was not necessarily linked to … as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is … style must consider the characteristic features of Hasidic society—the ambiance of each Hasidic court and the …