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Lekha dodi
… of Safed in the sixteenth century, is one of the most musically rich synagogue services. Its highlight is the … 1505-1584) that is sung to many different melodies in each Jewish community. The Western Sephardi tradition, however, … variants are documented at the different Spanish-Portuguese Jewish centers, already appears in musical notation (without …
Moshe Havusha
… traditions are based on both Syrian (“Halabi”) and Egyptian musical styles. Today, Havusha, who still lives in the Beit Israel neighborhood, is a popular hazzan , payytan , musician, and singer, with a large following across … competition held in Haifa, where he competed against both Jewish and Muslim musicians. Source: Goldstein, Riki. “A …
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 … Mandatory Palestine. Levy studied at the Conservatory of Music in Jerusalem (now the Jerusalem Academy of Music and … verses and piyyutim written by poets of the golden age of Jewish culture in Spain, such as Rabbi Yehudah Halevi, Rabbi …
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 … throughout Israel, in formal institutions such as the music teachers’ seminary of the Levinsky College of …
A. Irma Cohon
… In collaboration with the National Council of Jewish Women, Cohon authored Introduction to Jewish Music in Eight Illustrated Lectures , a foundational text …
Naomi Bahat-Ratzon
… community in the villages of the Golan Heights, and the Jewish communities of Yemen, to which she dedicated the majority of her work. In addition, Bahat-Ratzon is a music and dance educator. In 2012 she won the Shabazi Prize … to the research of the music and dance of the Yemenite Jewish communities in Israel. Along with Bahat they edited …
Shoshana Ben-Dor
… on Ethiopian Jewry . See: The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer … Researcher of Ethiopian Jewry … Ethnomusicologist … Ethiopia … Ethiopian Jewry … Shoshana Ben-Dor …
Pizmon al masaot mi-Bagdad ad kever Yehezkel ha-navi.
… Biblical prophet Ezekiel was a destination for thousands of Jewish pilgrims in Iraq during the Passover holidays through … [number] day is...” On this song see, Amnon Shiloah, The musical tradition of Iraqi Jews (Or Yehuda, 1983), no. 59, …
Three piyutim: Adon olam, Yigdal Elohim, Eyn Keloheynu
… synagogue services. Eyn Keloheinu is a traditional Jewish hymn included in the morning synagogue service. …
Ani hatsal [sic] (Shir hatunah)
… song became one of the best known ones in the Yishuv (Jewish community in Palestine) after it was published with musical notation by Abraham Zvi Idelsohn in one of his … pp. 4-5). This version was then arranged by several Jewish composers, such as Yoel Engel in volume 2 of his …