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Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa
… time of the German occupation in April 1941, around 50,000 Jews living in Salonika alone. The situation of the Jews … laws’, restricting activities and employment of Jewish Greeks. In March 1943, transports began to Auschwitz. … He volunteered at Yad Vashem, researching the story of Greek Jewry, and telling his story to groups. His memoir, …
Don Harrán
… interests: word-tone relations in music and theory from the Greeks to the seventeenth century; humanism and music; the … Italian madrigal; instrumental music of the early Baroque; Jews as composers, musicians, and music theorists in …
Amnon Shiloah
… them with pre-Islamic and most especially classical Greek and Latin sources on music. An interpretative … exclusive ethnographic experience among the contemporary Jews of the Lands of Islam who moved to Israel. Of … particular importance is his work with the small enclave of Greek-speaking Jews that survived the Holocaust. Besides the …
Vocal and Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition
… types of polyphonies and uses the polyphonies of Yemenite Jews, Samaritans and Jews of Corfu (Greece) to show that polyphonies exist among … … 1 … 1968 … Yemen … Greece … Samaritans - Shomronim … Greek … Cantor … Polyphony … Corfu … Cantorial music … …
Musical Tradition and its Transmitters between Synagogue and Church
… here) proposes to deal with five ancient centers where Jews, Romans and Syrians lived together in a cultural and … … Modes … Modality … Biblical chant … Church … Christian … Greek … Christianity … Jewish music … Biblical … Jewish influence … Greek modes … mode … Eric Werner … Amnon Shiloah … Bathja …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… prayer books even before the final expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. Moreover, nocturnal study and … sung are borrowed from the musical culture of the Sephardi Jews of Spain (tunes of Judeo-Spanish songs) and of the peoples of the region: Arabic, Turkish, Greek and Persian tunes. In Najara’s book, and in those of …
Bin Tavinu Liqnot Bina Ha'azinu
… poet and a composer, was born to a distinguished family of Jews from Spain. He lived and worked in Damascus, Safed, and … Najara's piyyutim are based on Turkish, Arab, Spanish and Greek songs, or on Hebrew piyyutim he favored. In the … from the research of the oral tradition of the Sephardic Jews of the Eastern Mediterranean. Afterwards, the …
Had Gadya
… in Provence, in a transitional form, transmitted perhaps by Jews expelled from France throughout the fourteenth century, among Ashkenazi Jews in Worms (if the 1406 manuscript source mentioned by … resemblances to H ad Gadya. German, French, and modern Greek variants of H ad Gadya are discussed by G. A. Kohut …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… in Provence, in a transitional form, transmitted perhaps by Jews expelled from France throughout the fourteenth century, among Ashkenazi Jews in Worms (if the 1406 manuscript source mentioned by … resemblances to H ad Gadya. German, French, and modern Greek variants of H ad Gadya are discussed by G. A. Kohut …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… deed] of dancing with or for the bride. Among Jews from the Bukovina region where Hasidism was … 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 …