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The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… very short-lived journal initiated by the World Center for Jewish Music in Palestine. Milhaud, who was a close … religion and there were cases of Gauls becoming Jewish converts. These Jews remained in Provence and … some Ashkenazi melodies. [3] The farandole is an open-chain dance popular in Provence, similar to the gavotte, jig, and …
Sara Levi-Tanai
… and lyricist renowned for her significant contributions 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 …
Léibele Schwartz
… , and on the bilingual radio program La Hora Israelita (The Jewish Hour) in the Radio Porteña station. In 1947, at the … Zedek , the third oldest synagogue in New York City and the Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills , one of the oldest … songs. The Shalosh Arba vocal quartet and the Israeli Dance Ensemble directed by Mario Goldberg also participated …
Sarah Harat
… scholarly education, an unusual feature for young Yemenite Jewish girls at the time. Sarah was exposed to the traditional poetry of the Yemeni Jewish women and to the sacred poetry, the Diwan, performed … She declined the invitation by the legendary Yemenite dance and theatre entrepreneur Sarah Levi-Tanai to join the …
"Se'i yona veshim'ini" (Go, Dove, and hear Me)
… continue with three different melodies, accompanied by a dance. These melodies, some of them in triple and others in … of the Jews from Central Yemen … Central Yemen … Diwan … Jewish community of Palestine … Shira … Tawshiḥ … Yemen …
Tehillat no. 1 (Sebastian Diaz Pena)
… dedicated to the Choir of Temple Emanuel and has a Curaçao dance-like rhythm. Performers: Gideon Y. Zelermyer (hazzan) … Music of the Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Curaçao … Jewish communities … Synagogue music … Afro American … …
El buen viar (El baile del cereal)
… A cumulative song used as a dance at wedding feasts. This song is formulated as a series … The refrain at the end of each strophe hints at the dance and also mentions the sea, a common poetic allusion of … we put our foot into the sea and turn around.” A similar dance song is found in the North Moroccan Sephardic wedding …
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 … because they loved to show their emotions through song, dance and gesturing with their hands. Father stood by his …
Yigdal elohim hay
… , attributed to Daniel of Rome (14th century), sung in most Jewish communities at the end of the Sabbath-eve or morning … one of Maimonides' Thirteen Articles of Faith. With its 6/8 dance rhythm and the overt-cl os cuadential pattern, this …
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 … Music in Jerusalem (now the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance) and in Tel Aviv at the Samuel Rubin Israel Academy of … verses and piyyutim written by poets of the golden age of Jewish culture in Spain, such as Rabbi Yehudah Halevi, Rabbi …