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Free voice of Labor: Jewish Anarchists
… Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher This documentary is about Jewish anarchists in New York City during the late … information on an interesting and often overlooked part of Jewish history, the film also features quite a few revolutionaly …
Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… served as an important feature of the Karaite heritage. History According to the Karaite tradition, the community's … melody to the same text is performed by Avraham Kanai, a Jewish Karaite from Kazakhstan. The third melody originated … 'The Role of Music in the Renewed Self Identity of Karaite Jewish Refuge Communities from Cairo.' Traditional Music 22 …
Aharon Amram
… with Sana'a's best teachers, while also learning Math, History and Hebrew in a Jewish school. In 1950, as part of 'Operation Magic Carpet' … hits and are considered today to be authentic sources of Jewish Yemenite singing in Israel. The most famous of these …
Almonds and Raisins
… director Russ Karel and narrator Orson Welles, scan the history of the genre from some of the earlier films such as … films deal with issues that arose with the eastern European Jewish immigrants who arrived in New York in the millions at … emphasis to the meeting point of cinema with music and Jewish traditions as can be found in this genre. Some …
About the Jews of Yemen, A Vanishing Culture
… renowned ethnomusicologist Johanna Spector, addresses the history and rituals of the Jews of Yemen, both in Yemen and … songs from the diwan of Shalom Shabazi (the most important Jewish poet of Yemen from the 17 th century), drumming on … … … Tradition … 1986 … Yemen … Yemenite … Ethnomusicology … Jewish cultural groups … Traditions … Israel … Johanna L. …
Hora
… and the second with duple. Hora as a Klezmer Genre The Jewish Klezmers adopted both kinds of genres and terms. The … folk songs with the Hora 6 , and indeed, many songs in the history of Israeli folksongs were written in the context of …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… Borodin and Moussorgsky – was introduced to the Russian Jewish composer and music critic Joel Engel . Stasov … like lightning… this was the memorable night when Jewish art music was born.” From that moment, Engel … He inspired a group of likeminded musicians of Russian Jewish origin, who together formed the “St. Petersburg …
With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen
… which have always been of interest to scholars of Jewish music, just as their unique cultural history has attracted the attention of Jewish scholars from an early stage. Interest in this …
Hayrana Laih
… is popular in the Arab world, but also has connections to Jewish musical contexts and musicians. The lyrics of Hayrana … Daoud Hosni (1870-1937), an Egyptian composer of Karaite Jewish origins composed it in 1932 for the Egyptian singer … Egyptians covering a crucial and turbulent period in the history of Egypt and its Jews. Their story shows the extent …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… of digital resources have enhanced the study of the Jewish liturgy helping us to make more accurate assessments … we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … , 1906, vol. 11, p. 306. Edwin Seroussi. “ Toward a history of Jewish oral traditions: The singing of the prayer …