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57. Me queres matar mancebo (Mlle Rosa)
… complaint of the lover that the beloved wants to take her life with a knife (or a gun) and the motif of getting up in …
Enni enni tirttu dinam (The fifth of Iyyar)
… from Palestine at the end of the Mandate. It praises the Jewish youth who "took up" the independence which was handed … "Enni enni parkum manam," from the Tamil film "Valukayi" ("Life") composed by R. Sudarsanam. It was performed during … first verse is repeated as a chorus. … Oh, Lovely Parrot! - Jewish Women's Songs from Kerala … Cochin … Communities … …
Sheva' Berakhot ("Seven Blessings")
… berakhot ("Seven Blessings") are a central component of the Jewish wedding ceremony. This recording is a unique … benedictions. This formula consists of two parts as do most Jewish liturgical blessings. Since the benedictions have … the suffering disappear from Israel and joyful occasions proliferate"). The complete, traditional version of the Seven …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… There are scholars of Jewish and Israeli culture whose crucial contributions … the oral testimonies of veterans of the Yishuv (the Jewish community of Palestine prior to the establishment of … modern Hebrew song that Hacohen collected throughout his life. Although Hacohen’s work lacked a coherent theoretical …
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 … director of the section of ethnic music of Kol Yisrael. His life's work was devoted to collect and to preserve the songs …
Moshe Havusha
… competition held in Haifa, where he competed against both Jewish and Muslim musicians. Source: Goldstein, Riki. “A … See also a documentary film about the life of Moshe Havusha (in Hebrew). … Paytan and Musician … …
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 … father of modern Jewish musical research. Idelsohn’s life traversed several important arenas of modern Jewish …
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 … to align synoptically the different events in Idelsohn’s life as he related them in the different versions of his … the special favor of the Duke who allowed her, as the only Jewish pupil, to visit his German primary school. All her …
Revisiting a Forgotten Treasure in Philadelphia
… College is very well known among scholars and collectors of Jewish music for its rich musical resources. The most … in under the noses of Nazi soldiers while risking his life and the life of his ten-year old son Samuel, and managed to bring …
2-7. El parto feliz
… that all was bought from Almosnino’s shop, a well-known Jewish pastry shop in Thessaloniki. Two variants (CD 1, nos. … for the circumcision feast. … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean … 2-7. El parto feliz …