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The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… Revised and annotated translation from the French by Edwin Seroussi Note: This article appeared in parallel columns in English, French and German in Musica Hebraica (1-2 [1938]: 18-20), the very short-lived … and, alas, the religious indifference of most of the youth. In proportion to its decline, a new element, which …
The Liturgical Music of the Provencal Jews (old Comtat Venaissin)
… On the occasion of the renewed interest on the opera “Esther de Carpentras” by … Milhaud , the JMRC team has been exploring the liturgical musical tradition in which this giant musician of the twentieth century grew up and of which some …
Music of the Jews of Monastir
… 10 … 7 … 41109 … Throughout the Ottoman Era, Jews, mostly of Sephardic origin, inhabited … South America as well as Israel carrying with them a rich musical tradition. Zack Youcha, a music researcher and third generation Monastirli …
Sarah “Shorty” Elias
… Ottoman Monastir, where she worked as a house maid from a young age. In 1911, she left the Ottoman Empire for New York in the United States. There, … community in America, and to whom they taught the music of their childhoods. Joe Elias , the youngest child, …
Joe Elias
… Joe Elias was born into a Sephardic family in Brooklyn. The youngest of seven children, Joe learned his songs on his … Folklife as one of the first performers of Ladino music in this country in the current epoch. After his …
Pinchas Borenstein
… Pinchas Borenstein was born in the small town of Jeziorna Królewska, a suburb of Warsaw, … Dov, was a rabbi, and his four sons became cantors. From a young age, Borenstein demonstrated a passion for music. As a child, he sang in a synagogue choir in Warsaw. …
Léibele Schwartz
… on March 22, 1928 as Yehudah Leib 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. …
2. El Merecimiento de Isaac (Im Afes Rova Haqen)
… Si el servicio de los sacrificios fue abandonado (If the ritual of the sacrifices was cancelled) This copla is a translation of … - Judeo-Espagnol - Judizmo … Ladino … Sephardic … Balkan music … Izmir … Spanish … Turkey … Yamim Nora'im - High …
Sarah Harat
… Sana'a in 1922 to Abraham Khobara and Yonah (Khamama) from the Beit Halevi family. In 1930, when she was eight years … she received a scholarly education, an unusual feature for young Yemenite Jewish girls at the time. Sarah was exposed … henna and wedding events, [ 1 ] and in those occasions her musical skills surfaced already at a young age when she …
‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… Not much is known of the life of Rabbi Mordecai ben Yehudah Dato (1525? – … addition to ‘Lekhah Dodi.’ Even more important for the main musical argument of this Song of the Month (see below), the … in the central Italian town of Urbino, in honor of a young man’s first reading of an haftarah, even before his …