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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 …
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 … …
"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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …