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Netanel Cohen (Musai)
… A scholar specializing in Jewish music, with a particular emphasis on the liturgical and piyyut traditions of Eastern Jewish communities. He holds a PhD in … of Baghdadi Jews in Israel. His research focused on the musical stereotypes that have emerged in relation to this …
Haim Louk
… at Em Habanim school in Casablanca, which integrated Jewish religious studies with general education, including … Talmudic studies, piyyutim (Jewish liturgical poetry), traditional chanting of Psalms, and Hebrew grammar. The … charismatic teacher who greatly influenced Louk's musical path. At the age of 10, Louk met Rabbi David …
Flory Jagoda
… Jagoda has widely promulgated and enriched the Sephardic musical tradition in the United States. Born in 1923, in Sarajevo, … and honor Flory's life and career. Full biography at the Jewish Women's Archive: Bortnick, Rachel Amado and Betty …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… The Jewish liturgy was never a sealed and unified corpus. Its … Although aligned mostly with the Western Sephardic tradition, it contains unique texts such as the selection of … logic, that they preserved older layers of Jewish musical memory although he did not discount also the …