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Linked by Melody: Gibraltar/Moroccan Songs for Passover (and Shavuoth)
… especially north Morocco, centered on episodes from the life of Moses. Most of these songs include as a refrain, or …
‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… Not much is known of the life of Rabbi Mordecai ben Yehudah Dato (1525? – … around the mid-sixteenth century from the circles of Jewish mystics of Safed and spready rapidly throughout the Jewish world, especially to Italy. One key figure in these …
Sarah Harat
… ( The Yemenites: History, Communal Organization, Spiritual Life , ed. Menahem Ben-Sasson, Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, … 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 …
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 … Cantor Leibele Schvartz" Commentary by Edwin Seroussi The life of Léibele Schwartz exemplifies two issues in Jewish …
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 … family maintained a rich cultural and religious life, profoundly influencing her artistic sensibilities. …
Joe Elias
… to perform at the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife as one of the first performers of Ladino music in this … Ensemble. He continued performing and teaching Sephardic Jewish songs for over 30 years, resulting in a prolific, yet … in New Mexico as part of a program to bring together the Jewish community with the Escondidos (crypto-Jews who fled …
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 … books, including a "Commentary on Deuteronomy" and a "Life of Jethro", and it was opened to public religious …
Flory Jagoda
… and a children's book document and honor Flory's life and career. Full biography at the Jewish Women's Archive: Bortnick, Rachel Amado and Betty … Jagoda Murphy. "Flory Jagoda." Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. 23 June 2021. Jewish Women's Archive. (Viewed …
Splendid Singing Birds: Jewish Women’s Songs from Kerala
… playlist is the advanced release of Splendid Singing Birds: Jewish Women’s Songs from Kerala , one of the longstanding projects of the Jewish Music Research Centre. Led with diligence, profound … of the Malayalam language song repertoire, anchored in the life of the Jewish communities of Kerala, on the southwest …