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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 …
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 …
Lezginka Khasasavyurti
… Lezginka is a dance form popular in northern Caucasus played mostly on … garmoshka and ghovol. There are several melodies for this dance, each named after the village or city in which it … title sindicates, in the town of Khasavyurt where a sizable Jewish community existed. … 8 … 7 … Makhachkala, Daghestan …
1. Oh Lovely Parrot!
… payinkiḷi —literally translated as a “green parrot,” and in Jewish Malayalam an epithet for a very beautiful woman— … and two others (songs 2 and 14) points to a tradition of Jewish roots in what is now the small town of Palayur, as … the only Jewish community whose women performed these dances in recent memory. When Marcia Walerstein-Sibony …