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Sara Levi-Tanai
… Jewish immigrants. Her parents emigrated from Yemen as part of the wave of Jewish migration in the late 19th. … cultural and religious life, profoundly influencing her artistic sensibilities. After completing her schooling, … she worked as a teacher and kindergarten instructor, using music and dance to educate children and pass on Yemeni …
4. Las Tablas de la Ley (The Tablets of the Law)
… example of the vicissitudes of Sephardic oral memory. The music of ‘The Tablets of the Law’ has been preserved among … Eloheinu’, with a melody in the Turkish makam Şehnaz, as part of the repertoire of the choral association called … Dios dijo: Anojí. Muestra Ley es estimada, de las umot apartada, de Israel es querida y del que dijo: Anojí. …
Joe Elias
… Folklife as one of the first performers of Ladino music in this country in the current epoch. After his … the States, Joe helped organize concerts in New Mexico as part of a program to bring together the Jewish community with … Spanish colonies). Joe passed away on April 10th, 2010. His musical work lives on through his son, Dan. See here …
Durme durme mi alma donzella
… Beniso, with his grandson, Ariel Lazarus on guitar, as part of Lazarus' master's recital at Oklahoma City … See also in our website the project on the liturgical music of the Gibraltar synagogues , that includes the …
The Liturgical Music of the Provencal Jews (old Comtat Venaissin)
… 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 … is a retranslated and annotated edition of Milhaud’s article about this liturgical tradition . For the events on …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… 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 Carpentras. The music [in Comtat-Venaissin] was particularly brilliant; in a period before the French opera …
Netanel Cohen (Musai)
… A scholar specializing in Jewish music, with a particular emphasis on the liturgical and … traditions of Eastern Jewish communities. He holds a PhD in Musicology from the Hebrew University, where his …
Haim Louk
… also housed a synagogue, where a large choir operated. Participation in the choir was a compulsory aspect of the … charismatic teacher who greatly influenced Louk's musical path. At the age of 10, Louk met Rabbi David … of a school, a position he held for 22 years. Louk's musical career, which began in Morocco, further developed …
Flory Jagoda
… Singer, musician, and composer Flory Jagoda has widely promulgated and enriched the Sephardic musical tradition in the United States. Born in 1923, in Sarajevo, she was raised in a Ladino-speaking and musical extended family and a grandmother who sang Sephardic …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… embellish the basic and ancient core of the liturgy with particular additions and variations. Classic locations for … inserted before the opening of the formal public prayer starting with the cry “Barekhu et Adonai hamevorakh” (Bless … unique texts such as the selection of Psalm verses whose music is discussed below. The memory of the melodies and …