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Armand Sabah
… Israel with his family at age ten. His father came from a musical family related to the renowned Moroccan singer and composer Sami Elmagribi. The love of music in his household was evident through the constant … ensemble since 2002. Additionally, he appeared in the film Bab El Ward (The Flowers Gate), directed by Haim …
Pete Sokolow
… in the Catskills span older and newer generations of Jewish musicians. Sokolow has played with many major figures in … Sokolow has orchestrated numerous albums, musicals and films. His albums include Klezmer Plus , by the group … with Pete Sokolow: Peter Sokolow's Oral History , a filmed interview by Christa Whitney (Brooklyn, New York: …
Abraham Salman
… the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a child in Baghdad’s school for blind Jewish … repertoire arranged for qanun. He also composed music for films and participated in several genre-bending recordings. … maqam performed by Yaqub al-'Amari. A short excerpt of a film about Abraham Salman (in Hebrew). Saltana . A complete …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of … the Kyiv collection] has attracted the attention of musicians and scholars of Jewish music ever since they … the situation. At the same time, the availability of microfilmed copies of the five volumes of Beregovski’s mostly …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From … new technologies of mass dissemination (78 rpm records, films, radio stations, LPs and more). Its development was …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … well. With the rise in America of the consuming classes, film, and the radio, middle-men in music with a passion for … does not mention that this number was restored to the 1943 film of the show (and today of course that number is …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… has shown in a lifetime of work, the history of Jewish music is really a set of complex, interlocking histories. … The commercially-inspired music of the Yiddish-language film of the 1930s in Poland and the United States provides … Not intending to document a soon-to-vanish world, filmmakers and film composers deployed a number of myths, …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem … the Moroccan Arab and Hebrew traditions of Andalusian music, and by his profound knowledge of the Hebrew language … in part by our shared research at the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts at the National Library of Israel. …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… Moreover, the catalogue of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts at the National Library of Israel … and its documentation are therefore formidable. However, musical renditions of the piyyut are rather rare and will be … that Kikhlot yeini has survived in two apparently unrelated musical strands which we have labeled “Zionist” and “Jewish” …
Avi Bar-Eitan
… researcher, and lecturer. He received his Ph.D. in musicology at the Hebrew University, and his M.A. and M.Mus … chamber and orchestral music and music for theatre and film. He performs in many ensembles and collaborates with … more than twenty plays, the musical “Kolot,” documentary films, radio programs, music for the Playback Theatre, music …