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Joseph Shlisky
… longer useful. He found himself in dire straits and had to work at odd jobs. Eventually, he found a home with one of … synagogues to apprentice with the giants of the field, like Yossele (Joseph) Rosenblatt . Shlisky was signed …
Yizhak Edel
… with the violin, but became more and more attracted to the fields of theory and composition. Under the pressures of the … case of Habimah Theater. He also became acquainted with the works of the Society for Jewish folk Music which were based … Aside from his studies, Edel engaged in both educational work and in musical initiatives. He worked in the Janosz …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… our understanding of our song’s origin. A wealth of field recordings have been conducted from North African … element. Nuestro Señor. Gimol Bentolila; גימול בנטולילה. Field recording conducted by Kol Israel in 1981. CD 04733, … how a common text, and in some cases a common melody, has worked its way through a diverse array of Sephardic …
6. Coplas de Hanukkah: Dak Il Tas, Toma El Tas
… … Saloniki … Salonica … Hanukkah … Chanukkah … Field recording … Judeo-Spanish - Ladino … Ladino … Ladino - …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… become the subject of growing interest in diverse scholarly fields. The JMRC has addressed this subject selectively in … how Arab, Turkish and Persian musical genres, modal frameworks and rhythms influenced the religious music of Jews … page includes critical assessments of existing historical works, as well as new enterprises. (Project cover image is …
Brakha Tzefira
… unpleasant memories from her time there, as she was put to work washing clothes to help sustain the house. As she moved … to the relatively small amount of artists working in the field. Following two years of collaboration, Tzefira and … Shahar, 'served as a calling card of sorts for the nascent field of Hebrew song in Palestine' [3] ( see sound examples …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… as “Balini-b balwa,” a version featured prominently in the work of Sara Manasseh, who conducted research on the … of “Fog al-Nakhal,” explored below. Manasseh conducted field recordings of Jewish immigrants from Baghdad to … from Baghdad as a young man in 1932. She also received a field recording of the mother of classical composer Brian …
Music of the Jews of Monastir
… the present project after processing the Sephardic field recordings done by J oe Elias , arguably the most …
Jacob Ben-Ami
… Known as "The New Yiddish Theatre" in Yiddish, it featured works by Hirshbein, Sholem Asch, Sholem Aleichem, Pinski, … May 1961. Additionally, Ben-Ami co-directed the film Green Fields (1937) and appeared in The Wandering Jew (1933), …