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Almonds and Raisins
… by Russ Karel Yiddish talking cinema burst into the film scene after the release of the first talkie, The Jazz Singer in 1927. Over the next 13 years more than 300 films were made in Yiddish. In Almonds and Raisins (named … life. Furthermore, many of these hundreds of films were musicals that prominently featured Yiddish music and Almonds …
About the Jews of Yemen, A Vanishing Culture
… This film, by renowned ethnomusicologist Johanna Spector, addresses the history and … Yemenite tradition are a main focal point throughout the film. In it there are scenes of praying, Heena ceremonies of …
A Pintale Id
… Director: Alan Ezequiel Jais This film is about a play about a Jewish Argentinean radio show … songs and Tangos and Milongas, two traditional Argentinean musical styles. Many of the songs and themes of the play … and Jewish. The songs featured and performed in the film are: A Quinte in Castela, A Yiddish Lidele, …
A musical passage
… Film about the Jewish Soviet Emigre Orchestra. … 9 … 34252 … … 1983 … Jim Brown … Lazar Gosman … Classical music … Immigration … Jewish musicians … A musical passage …
A letter to mother - A Brivele der Mamen
… Directed by Joseph Green Classic Yiddish film from 1939 with music by Abe Ellstein . In this film music is integral to the development of the plot and in …
A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden
… This film documents the American klezmer music revival that began in the mid 1970s and the bands, … information and a preview of the first 26 minutes of the film. Excerpt from the film featuring the Klezmer …
A Bookshelf On Top of the Sky: 12 Stories about John Zorn
… American composer who has been active in the New York music scene since the mid 1970s. During that period, Zorn's … an idiosyncratic style of polystylistic composition. This film, directed by and starring Claudia Heuermann, attempts … different stages of his career. While the content of the film is for the most part interesting, as it portrays Zorn …
Tipat Mazal (A Bit of Luck)
… This film is directed by and stars Ze'ev Ravach. It is about … Vivi, each sing a variety of songs during the course of the film. Revach sings in both Hebew and in Judeo-Moroccan. In … Yana: … 57 … 57 … 9 … 34257 … … Moroccan immigrants … Musica mizrakhit … Mizrakhim … Zeev Revach … Zehava Ben … …
Hay ram galeh
… it became major hub for liturgical and paraliturgical music in the modern western section of Jerusalem. It also … muwashsha h at and the rising new styles of Egyptian Arabic music developing from the late 19 th century onwards. The … 78 rpm records, radio broadcasts and later on via musical films. Jerusalem Jews embedded in the modern Egyptian Arab …
Hayrana Laih
… in the Arab world, but also has connections to Jewish musical contexts and musicians. The lyrics of Hayrana Laih … by Mohammad Abd al-Wahhab who invited her to co-star in his film “Yahya al Hub” (Long Live Love). From this point on she … She sang more than 1,000 songs and appeared in twenty-seven films. Her songs are performed until the present and she is …