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29. The Noble Bridegroom
… whose synagogues are located at opposite ends of the long Jewish street. For one familiar with the area, it is easy to … Street, accompanied by music and drumming from bands of non-Jewish musicians. Zacharia appreciates the rich poetry of this song, which he interprets as a dialogue …
17. Blessing Song
… refrain that “wanders” through the corpus of Malayalam Jewish songs; it refers to the midrash about the young girl, … granted to Jacob's innocent granddaughter Seraḥ. [2] This Jewish song shares the first line and a few other lines and … tradition of (wedding songs) in Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic poetry.” When the Blessing Song was recorded in 1977 by …
Rabbi David Buzaglo
… entire generation of cantors and singers of sacred Hebrew poetry centered in Casablanca, where he settled in 1919. His … exponentially in the collective memory of the Moroccan Jewish diaspora. [3] After receiving a traditional Jewish religious training, as was customary in the …
A Flowering Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not just) for Tu BiShvat
… cycle at the end of winter is a relatively newcomer to the Jewish calendar, going back “only” to Mishnaic times. … exerted great influence on modern Sephardic and Oriental Jewish ritual practices. This influence is clearly reflected … flowers is found in medieval Hispano-Arabic and Maghrebi poetry as well as in the poetry of the seventeenth-century …
3. Music by Salah al-Kuwayti
… introduction ( maqoudimah ), violin taqsim , abudiya (sung poetry), metric song, rhythmic violin taqsim , abudiya, … Makam … Ethnography … Ethnomusicological Research … Iraq … Jewish musicians … Maqam … Baghdadi … 3. Music by Salah …
Haim Louk
… at Em Habanim school in Casablanca, which integrated Jewish religious studies with general education, including … The curriculum encompassed Talmudic studies, piyyutim (Jewish liturgical poetry), traditional chanting of Psalms, and Hebrew grammar. …
2. El Merecimiento de Isaac (Im Afes Rova Haqen)
… this calamity, God can trust the faithfulness of the Jewish people as Abraham demonstrated by obeying the order … Romania, and the amazing history of his book of Hebrew poetry translated into Ladino. International Symposium on … ed. Dumitru Hîncu et al. Bucharest: Federation of the Jewish Communities in Romania, 1998, 51-58. .ישראל, ראובן …
Sarah Harat
… scholarly education, an unusual feature for young Yemenite Jewish girls at the time. Sarah was exposed to the traditional poetry of the Yemeni Jewish women and to the sacred poetry, the Diwan, performed …
‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… around the mid-sixteenth century from the circles of Jewish mystics of Safed and spready rapidly throughout the Jewish world, especially to Italy. One key figure in these … by Dato’s son, Refael Yehoshua and containing his fathers’ poetry with ample commentaries. Another composition of his …
"Qiryia Yefefiyah" (Lovely city)
… inspired by Yehuda Halevi's poem Yefe Nof . The poetry of the Jews of Yemen and other Eastern communities frequently imitated that of Jewish-Spanish poetry. 4. Zadok Zubeiri sings this song in the melody …