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Eliyahu Hacohen
… There are scholars of Jewish and Israeli culture whose crucial contributions … the oral testimonies of veterans of the Yishuv (the Jewish community of Palestine prior to the establishment of Israel) who …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … among other things the revival of Hebrew in Ottoman Palestine, the creation of a new secular Jewish culture, … in the institutionalization of the music life in the Jewish community of late Ottoman Palestine (Hirschberg 1995, ch. …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one … and modern luxury and decided to become a farmer in Palestine. For this purpose I visited S.[imon] Bernfeld … a school for cantors. He gave me a place in a Bavarian community. Brainin approved my action in becoming untrue to …
"Im Nin’alu Daltei Nedivim" (Were the gates of the munificent closed)
… Central Yemen … Brakha Tzefira … Central Yemen … Diwan … Jewish community of Palestine … Shalom Shabazi … Shira … Tawshiḥ … Yemen Jewery …
"Im Nin’alu Daltei Nedivim" (Were the gates of the munificent closed)
… Central Yemen … Brakha Tzefira … Central Yemen … Diwan … Jewish community of Palestine … Shalom Shabazi … Shira … Tawshiḥ … Yemen Jewery …
"Im Nin’alu Daltei Nedivim" (Were the gates of the munificent closed)
… Central Yemen … Brakha Tzefira … Central Yemen … Diwan … Jewish community of Palestine … Shalom Shabazi … Shira … Tawshiḥ … Yemen Jewery …
Vehalleluya (And Hallelujah)
… Central Yemen … Brakha Tzefira … Central Yemen … Diwan … Jewish community of Palestine … Shalom Shabazi … Shira … Tawshiḥ … Yemen Jewery …
"Se'i yona veshim'ini" (Go, Dove, and hear Me)
… of the Jews from Central Yemen … Central Yemen … Diwan … Jewish community of Palestine … Shira … Tawshiḥ … Yemen Jewery … Yemenite Jews … …
"Se'i yona veshim'ini" (Go, Dove, and hear Me)
… of the Jews from Central Yemen … Central Yemen … Diwan … Jewish community of Palestine … Shira … Tawshiḥ … Yemen Jewery … Yemenite Jews … …
Sarah Harat
… was eight years old, her family moved to British Mandate Palestine, settling in Sha’arei Pinah, an area adjacent to … scholarly education, an unusual feature for young Yemenite Jewish girls at the time. Sarah was exposed to the … the sacred poetry, the Diwan, performed by the men of her community. Her grandfather, Yosef Yitzhak Halevi, enriched …