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Isaac Levy
… Isaac Levy was born in Manisa near Izmir to a Sephardic Jewish family. At the age of three, he moved with his family … verses and piyyutim written by poets of the golden age of Jewish culture in Spain, such as Rabbi Yehudah Halevi, Rabbi …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … and saints, or Leidensgeschichte and Geistesgeschichte . Jewish Studies in this formulation consisted of the … far beyond this constricting narrative to recover Jewish culture, economics, politics, and society. Yet something of …
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 … the special favor of the Duke who allowed her, as the only Jewish pupil, to visit his German primary school. All her … variant. Although, Libau was a modern city with German culture, my father picked for me a Lithuanian teacher in a …
Mapping of German Liturgical Music
… The Jewish Music Research Centre is proud to present a map of … sources of liturgical music form the German-speaking Jewish world. This map derives from the online data base available in the website of the Jewish Music Research Centre. The project was carried out in …
Sara Levi-Tanai
… to dance and theater in Israel. Her works, deeply rooted in Jewish and Yemenite traditions, significantly shaped … Levi-Tanai was born in Jerusalem to a family of Yemenite Jewish immigrants. Her parents emigrated from Yemen as part … performed internationally, bringing Israeli and Yemenite culture to global audiences. Members of the Yemenite "Inbal" …
Haim Louk
… at Em Habanim school in Casablanca, which integrated Jewish religious studies with general education, including … The curriculum encompassed Talmudic studies, piyyutim (Jewish liturgical poetry), traditional chanting of Psalms, … Israeli musicians. In 2011, he was awarded the Ministry of Culture's Prize for Music in recognition of his …