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The Liturgical Music of the Provencal Jews (old Comtat Venaissin)
… interest on the opera “Esther de Carpentras” by French Jewish composer Darius Milhaud , the JMRC team has been exploring the liturgical musical tradition in which this giant musician of the twentieth …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… very short-lived journal initiated by the World Center for Jewish Music in Palestine. Milhaud, who was a close … administration and the Jews of the Comtat. [5] As regards musical records, the only document in our possession is a … a libretto that connects to the purest Comtadin traditions. In fact, I have been extremely fortunate. There …
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 …
Shabbat and Year Cycle Songs from the Collection of James Levy
… reflects James Levy's profound connection to his father's musical legacy and the enduring cultural traditions of Gibraltar. Rooted in the Sephardic heritage of … Comprising over 350 songs, it represents a distinctive musical heritage, preserving the melodies of past …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… Childhood and early musical career Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur (يوسف زعرور) was born … most Baghdadi Jews, Zaarur attended synagogue services and traditional family celebrations from an early age, which … This generational tension between well-to-do Baghdadi Jewish families and their youngsters who loved music and …
5. Mi-Pi El (De Boca del Dio)
… their arms all the Torah Scrolls found in the Ark. In the tradition of the Beit El synagogue in Jerusalem and its … of Simhat Torah. Despite its enormous diffusion throughout Jewish communities and its appearance in countless printed … in and outside Israel. Among the most important historical musical documents we possess of the melody of ‘Mi-pi El’ is …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… experiences, it was widely appreciated for its beauty, musical features, and spiritual power, emerging from … underpin aesthetic appreciation within the pre-Holocaust tradition. [2] Consequently, the correspondence between … as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is …