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Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked … scholar of music in the Islamic world and of the Jewish musical traditions within it. Warkov wanted to study processes of …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long … on my phone to a variety of people familiar with musical traditions from the Nahda period and/or the liturgical …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new … in Hebrew) for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, a fast day in Jewish tradition marking the breach of Jerusalem’s … and limitations of written sources by looking into the oral traditions captured in field recordings and stored at the …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… for the Ninth of Av among the Sephardic and Oriental Jewish communities. The identity of the author is unknown, … such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … and other social dislocations on Jewish liturgical traditions. Before addressing the questions raised by the …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… 49 … 58 … Jewish liturgy evolved in a multidirectional process. … crystallized into several minhagim (“customs” or “traditions”) once the printing press started to produce … return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical performance of the three verses. The precious Leo …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… from archives around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which … discography. It also barely survived in the Sephardic oral traditions which were recorded in ethnographic pursuits … for Performing Arts) conducted by Roumen Tsonev in the CD Jewish Songs from Bulgaria . The song itself starts at …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked … scholar of music in the Islamic world and of the Jewish musical traditions within it. Warkov wanted to study processes of …
Arabs - Jews - Music
… where Arab culture and language predominated over all local traditions. Jews of these lands absorbed, integrated with … making was one area of cultural expression in which the Jewish-Arab encounter was intense. Shared musical spaces between Arabs and Jews is becoming a subject …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to … German music as a “universal” language against which other musical nationalisms in Europe defined themselves. … attempt to review not only networks of musicians, musical traditions, repertories, genres, and styles that were …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… volunteer in Meseret , a center that supported traditional Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and … tourists to Ethiopian culture. Traditional Ethiopian musical instruments including the krar (harp) , masinqo (one … My interests lay elsewhere; my focus was on secular music traditions, as I believed these would reflect the joys, …