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Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… song written in Arabic, Hebrew and English. Courtesy of the author. Your browser does not support the audio element. … Recording of the Baidaphon record, as captured on the author's cellphone. Back at AMAR, what had prompted the … current political order being defined by the rule of authoritarian state regimes, travel between these countries …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… One of the masters of this then new poetic style was the author of our poem, Shlomo Ibn Gabirol (ca. 1020-1058). …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… and Oriental Jewish communities. The identity of the author is unknown, except his name, Binyamin (Benjamin), … in an acrostic. Consequently, the time and place of authorship are also unknown, although it is most probably a …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… information that could have been easily retrieved had the author consulted sources in Hebrew. The latter half of this … the leader of the Communist Party) and Yiddish (on the author Nathan Bistritzky ) are also known (Zemereshet …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… Moshé Cazés . Jerusalem: Misgav Yerushalayim-The National Authority for Ladino; Thessaloniki: The Ets Ahaim …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Unger can certainly add significant insights into what the author labels “the search for Jewish meaning” in his title. … Tesler-Mabé’s book nor are they even addressed. Whereas the author aspires to position Unger, Mahler, and the …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… “perhaps he would have noted” and others) that give rise to authorial rambling and invention — this is maybe the book … by his friend Alexander Woollcott, a version effectively authorized by Berlin himself, had appeared during his …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… of the most popular modern Ladino songs, “Pesah a la mano,” authored by singer, accordionist, composer and teacher Flory … or deeds related to Passover, as ordained by a traditional authority (baking matzot and cooking special dishes, … “Pesah a la mano” started to be transmitted without the author’s attribution. The Catalonian singer Rosa Zaragoza …
Moshe Cordova
… to employ Ottoman makamlar as an organizing principle. The author of the musical setting remains unknown. Moshe …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… Only one Israeli institution— the Israeli Broadcast Authority (IBA) —supported an Arabic music orchestra on its … and from Israel’s Palestinian minority (considered by the authorities to be a potential enemy within). Iraqi music was …