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78. Golden Aliyah
… and its melody was created by G. Devarajan, composer of musical scores for more than 300 films. This hit song appeared first in the very popular … Arts Club (KPAC) in 1952—which was later made into a film with the same title. Hear “The Golden Sickle” at: …
74. The Fifth of Iyar
… 1954, Kerala Jews celebrated Israeli Independence Day with music and flag-raisings on the fifth day of the Hebrew month … manam, ” composed by R. Sudarsanam, from the 1949 Tamil film Valukayi (“Life”). Beginning with the same words …
65. Each and Every Day
… the Kerala Hebrew piyyut and follows its melody and its musical poetic structure of repeating the same phrase over … conversation, 2003). [3] The award-winning Malayalam film Ara Nāḻika Neram (1970) popularized the Christian song …
Rabbi David Buzaglo
… is an opportunity to revive his biography in our website. A musical and rabbinical prodigy since his early days, Rabbi … learned from a famous scene of the very popular American film Waterloo Bridge (1940) that was distributed in French … dance to the tune of “Auld Lang Syne .” This romantic film about separation and tragedy caused by war enjoyed a …
Ezra Barnea
… Above all Barnea was an educator, but also a synagogue musician, paytan and cantor, an expert on the Jerusalem … rabbi's estate were published by Barnea’s committee, and films about the Rabbi’s life were produced. One of these films was produced by Yitzhak Recanati, a long-time partner …
Sara Levi-Tanai
… she worked as a teacher and kindergarten instructor, using music and dance to educate children and pass on Yemeni … innovative teaching materials, including original songs and music, gained significant recognition and have been used by … Levi-Tanai also composed music for theater productions and films, collaborating with well-known artists such as Nahum …
Léibele Schwartz
… on March 22, 1928 as Yehudah Leib Kirzner. He began his music studies as a child with his father, Yaakov, who was a … Sephardic traditions (see Discography below ). In 1986 he filmed a medium-length film “Léibele Schwartz sings to his roots” at the Burzaco …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… in the Jewish past. A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern Jewish musical research. Idelsohn’s life traversed several … the nature of that “performance.” The few seconds of film footage and photos of this event that have survived do …
Moshe Havusha
… traditions are based on both Syrian (“Halabi”) and Egyptian musical styles. Today, Havusha, who still lives in the Beit Israel neighborhood, is a popular hazzan , payytan , musician, and singer, with a large following across … See also a documentary film about the life of Moshe Havusha (in Hebrew). … Paytan …
Mark Slobin
… Mark Slobin is the Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Emeritus at Wesleyan University and the author or … on Afghanistan and Central Asia, eastern European Jewish music, film music, American music, and ethnomusicology theory, two …