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Ades Synagogue
… The Ades synagogue of the Aleppine Jewish community is located in the Nakhalat Zion … and New York have become the centers of the Aleppine piyyut tradition. In Jerusalem, the Ades community maintains the musical tradition of the Aleppine Jews. Each Shabbat is …
Hay ram galeh
… of Jerusalem. The Ades synagogue was founded in 1901 by the Jewish immigrants from Aleppo (northern Syria) and since its … through 78 rpm records, radio broadcasts and later on via musical films. Jerusalem Jews embedded in the modern … a late stage in the rooted Middle Eastern Sephardic tradition of turning secular Arabic songs into sacred Hebrew …
Admor
… and his authority is expressed in matters connected to Jewish law (Hallakha). He conducts marriages, signs on … his authority from the place of the Tsadik in the H assidic tradition. One of the fundaments of the H assidism is the … Zemirot with them. He also took the job of renewing the musical tradition of the dynasty, and acted as a musical …
Freylekhs
… term that, in this case, signifies a musical genre. It seems that Freylekhs tunes comprised the core of the traditional Klezmer repertoire in Eastern Europe, and were … of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). [1] Moshe Beregovski, Jewish Instrumental Folk Music , Vol. III (М.Я.Береговский. …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… Borodin and Moussorgsky – was introduced to the Russian Jewish composer and music critic Joel Engel . Stasov … his life to transcribing, arranging, and promoting the musical heritage of Russian Jewry. He inspired a group of … quoted above, “ Shlof Majn Kind ”, is an arrangement of a traditional lullaby. It is one of the few songs for viola …
Hora
… and the second with duple. Hora as a Klezmer Genre The Jewish Klezmers adopted both kinds of genres and terms. The … Moshe (Musa) Berlin (b. 1937), who took his tunes from musical scores and records published in the U.S., used the … in Israel, who until then danced in a circle, in simple traditional marches, gradually accepted the Hora dance. …
Representations of Jews in the Musical Theater of the Habsburg Empire (1788-1807)
… literature and theater has not identified any musical parallels to contemporary representations of Jews in … music. This music surfaces after the first positive Jewish characters began to appear on the German stage, … Jewish singers and musicians were even performing their traditional music on stages in Vienna and Budapest. Yet, as …
A Bookshelf On Top of the Sky: 12 Stories about John Zorn
… Directed by Claudia Heuermann. John Zorn is a Jewish American composer who has been active in the New York … art, surf music, and countless other styles and genres of musical expression. He often fuses these elements into one … is the meeting between jazz and different Jewish musical traditions such as Klezmer and Sephardic music. Zorn creates …
A Pintale Id
… Alan Ezequiel Jais This film is about a play about a Jewish Argentinean radio show and about the beginnings of … features both Yiddish songs and Tangos and Milongas, two traditional Argentinean musical styles. Many of the songs and themes of the play …
Almonds and Raisins
… films deal with issues that arose with the eastern European Jewish immigrants who arrived in New York in the millions at … life. Furthermore, many of these hundreds of films were musicals that prominently featured Yiddish music and Almonds … to the meeting point of cinema with music and Jewish traditions as can be found in this genre. Some significant …