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Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … among various communities, there seems to be an underlying musical structure tying together all the documented versions … language of the Kurdish Jews), Kurmanji, Hebrew and Arabic. He was a sought-after musician, faithfully …
Moshe Cordova
… m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … career as a synagogue singer and composer. Parallel to his musical career he developed a business in the field of … the case of the Turkish Jews in Israel, the predominance of Arabic music styles (Middle Eastern or Maghrebi ones) in …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of … Israel in the early 1950s, part of the Jewish exodus from Arab lands, which had become largely inhospitable to Jewish … the Israeli Broadcast Authority (IBA) —supported an Arabic music orchestra on its ‘Voice of Israel in Arabic’ …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras . Syracuse: … trilogy of sorts, alongside Hankus Netsky’s Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth Century Jewish Philadelphia … Rice and Ali Jihad Racy’s efforts to theorize Bulgarian and Arabic music performances respectively). While his framing …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… With the rise of Islam and the expanding Arab conquests throughout the Middle East, North Africa and … Jews of Antiquity found themselves living in lands where Arab and Persian cultures and languages predominated. Jews … means of communication capable of surmounting estrangement. Music and music making was an area of cultural expression in …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the recordings … by the singing of paraliturgical Hebrew (and at times Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic) poetry. This poetry is set to Andalusian … the congregation as a choir with the rhythmic melody of the Arab song “Ya um al-‘abaya” (يا أم العباية) that was made …
Abraham Salman
… Abraham Salman (born Shaharabani) was a qanun virtuoso, one of the finest players of … the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a child in Baghdad’s school for blind Jewish … and a favored accompanist of some of Iraqi's best-known Arab singers. Salman immigrated to Israel in 1950 and was a …
Yitzhak Aviezer
… Former Music Director and Producer for Voice of Israel in Arabic, … musician, conductor and founder of "Kol Israel" in arabic … Kol Yisrael … Composer … Conductor … Kol Israel … …
Hisqil Qassab
… after the Jews were deported from Iraq as a result of the Arab-Israeli conflict, where he continued reading the Maqam … biographical information See also: Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited by Esther Warkov. …
Salim Shibith (Salim Ha-Cohen)
… took the additional step of engaging a teacher of Arabic literature and poetry to augment his education at a … of the maqam , wrote Na‘im Twayna in his series on Iraqi musicians in Al-Anba’ newspaper (June 30, 1978). It is … Revisited . … Maqam performer … Vocal music … Iraq … Arabic Music Broadcast Ensemble … Israel Broadcast …