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Rabbi David Buzaglo
… Rabbi David Buzaglo is one of their most iconic twentieth-century Moroccan Jews. The … exponentially in the collective memory of the Moroccan Jewish diaspora. [3] After receiving a traditional Jewish … Twentieth Century,” Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History 22 (2022): 78–108. [5] See Joseph Chetrit, “L’oeuvre …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… Tish-nigunim in the Post-vernacular Era This study aims to trace the unique … as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is … of this conceptualization to the study of the cultural history of eastern-European Jews (ibid., 82–110). The …
Sara Levi-Tanai
… renowned for her significant contributions to dance and theater in Israel. Her works, deeply rooted in Jewish and Yemenite traditions, significantly shaped … mark on Israeli culture, making her a pivotal figure in the history of Israeli performing arts. Her artistic vision and …
Sarah Harat
… Sana'a in 1922 to Abraham Khobara and Yonah (Khamama) from the Beit Halevi family. In 1930, when she was eight years … Conversations of a Yemenite Blacksmith” ( The Yemenites: History, Communal Organization, Spiritual Life , ed. Menahem … scholarly education, an unusual feature for young Yemenite Jewish girls at the time. Sarah was exposed to the …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … because they loved to show their emotions through song, dance and gesturing with their hands. Father stood by his …
El Jiwneh Hagalil (Lied der galilaischen Arbeiter) – God will Build the Galilee (Galilee Worker’s Song)
… study of El yivneh ha-galil would fill an entire chapter in the history of the Jewish song (Seroussi 2010). Different tunes, variations of …
Curt Sachs
… Born in Berlin, Sachs studied piano, music theory and composition as a youth in that city. He began a … founders of modern organology (the study of the nature and history of musical instruments), he collaborated with Erich … can be accessed online. Sachs Curt. World History of the Dance , (Ed. 1963). Biographies: Brown Hoard Mayer. 'Sachs, …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… I spent the summer of 1989 living in a Nazareth Illit (today Nof … volunteer in Meseret , a center that supported traditional Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and … the qessim ’s authority. … Questions about the origins, history and (pre-halakhic) Judaism of Beta Israel had also …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in … came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked … who maintained a living connection to the tradition. History, however, proved her wrong. Starting in the 1990s, …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis collection . … life work. The survey also includes a brief general history of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of …