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8. Kadavumbhagam—Kochi Synagogue Song
… A staircase they constructed for ascending there. The women go and sit there—the ones with covered heads— So, … dwelled in its Torah ark (heikhal). I have also heard other Jewish elders from Kerala refer to the Shekhinah (Hebrew), … Lane recorded the song again in 2006 to facilitate its musical transcription. After the interior of this synagogue …
2. The Song of Evarayi
… Moshav Taoz, November 9, 1981. CD track 14; I-12. 2b. F our women from Kerala communities (not Kadavumbhagam-Kochi). Recorded by ethnomusicology students from Bar-Ilan University, Moshav … the same story about an adventurous and learned Jewish teacher named Evarayi (Ephraim). Setting out from …
15. Mutiyayi Ninnu (Tekkumbhagam-Kochi paḷḷi Song)
… gathered And fixed for the palli a solid foundation. Music rang out, with booming of drums, Fireworks exploding, the blast of the horn. Women burst out with the sounds of korava And lifted their … … Cochin … Jerusalem … AMTI 0403 … Oh, Lovely Parrot! - Jewish Women's Songs from Kerala … Cochin … Communities … …
A Flowering Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not just) for Tu BiShvat
… cycle at the end of winter is a relatively newcomer to the Jewish calendar, going back “only” to Mishnaic times. … emerged therefore from a rich multicultural poetic and musical background that can be traced back to the medieval … that El debate de las flores was orally transmitted among women in the Eastern Mediterranean at least until the early …
Yaakov Huri
… relations dominating the encounters between European ethnomusicologists and their subjects of inquiry in Israel. Our … as rabbi. Huri belonged to the Zionist sector of the Jewish community. This sector, unlike the yeshivah students … long gallery of Beit Ha’am and lead the prayer from there. Women and men, young people and academics who could not find …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… study aims to trace the unique characteristics of a type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European … as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is … shepherd songs; and rarely documented tunes sung by Hasidic women for themselves. Yet, while nigunim of these sources …
1. Oh Lovely Parrot!
… payinkiḷi —literally translated as a “green parrot,” and in Jewish Malayalam an epithet for a very beautiful woman— … “play song” performed for special occasions by a group of women dancing in a circle, its repeated rhythmic pattern … “ ayyayya ” chorus. (See Johnson 2006.) The two Paradesi women who recorded it for me in 1977 told me that it was not …
Splendid Singing Birds: Jewish Women’s Songs from Kerala
… Jerusalem … This playlist is the advanced release of Yuval Music Series 14, Splendid Singing Birds: Jewish Women’s Songs from Kerala. This is one of the longstanding …
Flory Jagoda
… Singer, musician, and composer Flory Jagoda has widely promulgated … and honor Flory's life and career. Full biography at the Jewish Women's Archive: Bortnick, Rachel Amado and Betty Jagoda …
Sara Levi-Tanai
… to dance and theater in Israel. Her works, deeply rooted in Jewish and Yemenite traditions, significantly shaped … she worked as a teacher and kindergarten instructor, using music and dance to educate children and pass on Yemeni … and the Inbal Dance Theater." Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues , no. 11 (Spring 2006): …