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The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… known by its Ladino name, Esnoga, and is one of the Dutch Jewish community's most important structures. Its history and that of Amsterdam's Jewish community reflects the history of the entire Jewish … cultural developments of the Dutch state as well as Jewish culture and history. Among the Jewish leaders were rabbis, …
Le Blues du Yiddish
… Anne Goldberg and Alex Szalat This film is about Yiddish culture in Paris. The soundtrack features Yiddish songs and … Rund's Ikh Bin a Mame. Both are performed by Talila, the Jewish French singer and actress. … 9 … 34129 … Centre … … French … Diaspora … Paris … Contemporary … Diasporic Jewish Culture … Le Blues du Yiddish …
Stan Getz: A Musical Odyssey
… and more information available at the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University website . … 9 … 34185 … … … … Ethnic … Israel … Cultural contact and exchange … Popular Culture … Stan Getz: A Musical Odyssey …
Songs of the Jews of the island of Djerba: A comparison between two surveys, Hara Sghira (1929) and Hara Kebira (1976)
… Comparison of a study of the songs of the Hara Kebira (large Jewish quarter) with Robert Lachmann 's study of 30 years earlier of those of the Hara Sghira (small Jewish quarter) reveals that the Jews of Djerba adopted …
Last Jews in Yemen
… there. In addition to exposing the viewer to the both Jewish and Muslim Yemenites' ways of life, the film also presents different Yemenite Jewish musical traditions as performed in Yemen of the mid … Shabazi … Diwan … Operation Magic Carpet … Diasporic Jewish Culture … Last Jews in Yemen …
Akiva Zimmermann
… immersed himself in the world of Hebrew books and Hebrew culture at its best. He was well versed in literature and the press and a great scholar of all Jewish and Israeli beings. He knew many of Israel's leaders … personally, particularly regarding their relationship to Jewish tradition and beliefs. Zimmerman had an immense …
The practice of music as an expression of religious philosophy among the East-Ashkenazi Jews
… Special issue on Jewish music Establishing a conceptual framework for the … are established to clarify aspects of East Ashkenazi culture: visual-material, wherein religious ideas and …
The Training of Hazzanim in Nineteenth-Century Germany
… Cantors … 9613 … 19th (Nineteenth) Century … 19th century jewish history … Jewish Culture Germany … Hazzanut … Hazzanim - Cantors … Cantorial …
Se il violinista cade dal tetto… L’Italia nel revival della “musica klezmer” [If the Fiddler Falls Off the Roof… Italy in the “Klezmer Music” Revival]
… klezmer music in Italy, where it has become synonymous with Jewishness and denotes a musical culture that is believed to live in a transnational and … scene presents a repertoire devoid of traditional and Jewish content, while at the same time shaping a new …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness through music challenged the normative status of … them had immigrated. Against the paradigm whereas Yiddish culture had a “one-way” circulation, from the Old to the New …