Directed by Dan Katzir This film tells a dual tale. The first is of Zypora Spaisman,…

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… Nací en Álamo . This song's beautiful melody comes from the Greek song Nas Balamo that was set to Spanish lyrics for the …

… number of tunes that are considered to be hasapikos by the Greeks and freylakhs by the Jews which are equally typical … genres. We don’t really know but I tend to think they were Greek first. Martin Schwartz of the University of California … very prominent in professional music. There were still many Greek musicians in Bessarabia and you had bands of mixed …

… produce a detailed discussion of music along the lines of Greek philosophy. Saadya Gaon (882-942) was the first Jewish …

… by S. Kosch... It exhibits the typical terkishe (Actually Greek sirto ) back up rhythm, albeit at a slow pace.” …

Asher Shimon Mizrahi was born in the old city of Jerusalem in 1890 to father Yitzhak…

… traditions ( Abenójar-Sanjuán 2024 ) and also in the neo-Greek poetry of the Balkans ( Armistead and Silverman 1968 … of 2+2+2+3 similar to the Turkish usul karşılama or the Greek zeïbekiko . In the absence of a percussion …

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