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Brakha Tzefira
… collecting songs and melodies from oriental Jewish communities, Bedouins, and Arabs, which were then arranged … and their shows included songs of Jewish oriental communities (Yemenite, Sephardic, and more) which Tzefira … Tzefira In relation to Tzefira's role as mediator between eastern melodies and the forming 'Israeli' music, the recent …
Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… from mainstream Judaism. During that period, other Karaite communities were founded across Palestine—in Ramleh and … Egypt and Byzantium as well as in Crimeria, Lithuania, and Eastern Poland. During that period, the development of the … the 19 th century. With the rise of oppressive regimes in Eastern Europe at the end of the 19 th century and first …
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… By the early 17 th century, there were three Jewish communities living in Amsterdam: Beit Shalom (founded around … founders and managers of international trade organizations. Eastern and central European Jews began arriving in Holland … of this synagogue is the result of a mixture of Western and Eastern elements. A similar fusion is found in the …
Had Gadya
… in the repertoire of Provençal and Central-European Jewish communities prior to its earliest appearance in print, … based off the Italian song Alla fiera dell’est (‘At the Eastern Fair’) composed by the Italian singer and …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… in the repertoire of Provençal and Central-European Jewish communities prior to its earliest appearance in print, … the melody of the Italian song Alla fiera dell’est (‘At the Eastern Fair’) composed by the Italian singer and …
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… Jews used to sing in events of the life cycle in their communities in Turkey, the Balkans and Israel. The … … Balkan music … Field work … Field recordings … Spanish … Eastern Sephardi … Susana Weich-Shahak … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean … שושנה וייך-שחק …
Likhvod Hatanna Haelokai (In Honor of the Holy Tanna)
… of Iyar—Lag Ba’Omer—among Sephardic and Ashkenazi communities in Israel, include four customs: the lighting of … During these celebrations, members of the various Jewish communities sing piyyutim that were written in honor of … shared by the verses and the refrain, attests to the Middle Eastern influence on the piece. The melodic range is …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… Hasidic style, in a stately 2/4 rhythm. In some regions of Eastern Europe, synonomous with freylekhs.” Alpert 1996b, … “Other dances performed at weddings in East European communities were:... Redl, Frailachs, Karahod, Hopke , … scale freylakhs, not the Ahava Raba , that we know from Eastern Europe. On the other hand, their performance style …
Hora (LKT)
… of the genre among East European Jews, is common in northeastern Romania and among Bukovina Ukrainians. Among … from the contemporary hora popular in Orthodox and Hasidic communities. In a much wider area of Eastern Europe, horas were frequently used as processional …
Zhok (LKT)
… 1987 #226-231 . (Musical notation included). “In many communities in Eastern Europe, especially in Hungary, Moravia, and Rumania, …