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An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… version he heard from a colleague of his in the Israeli educational system. He indeed agrees that the tune … the making of this song. Translating the beloved Passover folksongs added to the Haggadah sometime during the late …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… Zoltán Kodály, a staunch advocate of the integration of folk music into the national music of his people. Avigdor’s … and musicological upbringing soon opened doors of the young Israeli educational system, such as a teaching position at … the Ashkenazi repertoire of zemiroth Shabbat (Sabbath table songs; for an example see here ), which he recorded and …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… النخل) “Fog al-Nakhal,” is nowadays one of the most popular songs in the Middle East. It is a muwwashshah, “girdle” … Bashir, producers known for re-arranging pre-existing Iraqi folk songs for radio and television broadcast. [2] Ghazali’s … Tassa and the Kuwaity’s: A Search for Belonging Popular Israeli musician Dudu Tassa is the grandson of Daoud …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… (1900-1970). However, it belongs to a genre of popular songs that draw heavily from folk styles from the Greater Syria region. It is widespread … They were joined in the performance by a new generation of Israeli-born and Israeli-educated Moroccan Jews, the …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… time in Beregovski’s Evreiskiie narodnyie pesni [Jewish Folk Songs] – the collection that Beregovski prepared for … century, becoming an emblematic signifier of modern Israeli culture. As Mazor has shown in his groundbreaking …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… host society and also, inculcated with hegemonic values of Israeli citizenship. Meseret (“Tradition”), the brainchild … 4). Chapter 6 provides detailed musical analysis of several songs: a solo voice and masinqo performance, a solo voice … context, is also favored over other available choices: a folklorized, depoliticized Ethiopianness or alternatively, …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… documentation of Eastern European Jewish music and folklore. The complicated paths of encounter between … opening of the Russian and Ukrainian archives of Judaica to Israelis in the post-Soviet period. Had Adler read Zachary … s containing the musical and textual transcriptions of the songs would become available in Jerusalem. That promise …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… of Jerusalem mourns the passing of Moroccan Jewish folk singer Alicia (Benassayag) Bendayan on Friday, June 11, … life, she treasured within her memory the Judeo-Spanish songs of the North Moroccan Sephardic community, playing a … Due to pressures toward homogenization under a burgeoning Israeli national culture, the Judeo-Spanish songs of …
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 … publication was planned as a collaboration with the late Israeli musicologist of Latvian origin Joachim Braun (Bar …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… and North African versions in the article entitled “Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardic Melodies … Hebrew Bible contest and in 1964, Hocha went on to win the Israeli Hebrew Bible contest (see above his picture with … fast days in the Jewish liturgical calendar, spiced with folk tales related to these events. When the section in the …