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Shabbat Hamalcah
… back to the Shtetl (small Eastern European city where Jews would primarily live) in order to experience the …
Shir Bamromim
… of two streams of Judaism: Hassidim and North African Jews. Even though the two groups assemble in close proximity …
Tarbut
… Ki MeTsion Tetse Torah, Yemenite singing and dancing, Jews playing Arabic music, a performance of Gadna, the …
Last Jews in Yemen
… roots she decided to visit Yemen and make a film about the Jews who have remained there. In addition to exposing the … shot during Operation Magic carpet in which thousands of Jews from Yemen were brought to Israel in the late 1940s … … Operation Magic Carpet … Diasporic Jewish Culture … Last Jews in Yemen …
Abyadi Ana
… Some of the most complex Henna ceremonies among Jews took place in Morocco where a special repertoire of … ceremony remains very popular, and is performed also by Jews from areas that did not have a Henna tradition before … red color that remains after spreading it on the skin. The Jews of Morocco share patterns of the Henna ceremony with …
Inventing Jewish Music
… Judaism and the emergence of the concept of nation among Jews in Europe. … 2 … Jerusalem … The Magnes Press, The …
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… the 16 th and 17 th centuries, descendants of the exiled Jews immigrated to the Netherlands from Spain and Portugal. … Among the refugees were wealthy Spanish and Portuguese Jews and Huguenot merchants who fled from Antwerp and … France. After their exile from Spain in 1492, some of the Jews first escaped to Portugal. However, there they …
Malcolm Miller
… , ( March 09, 2011); Eric, Jeff Rosenthal. The 8 Jews of Rap: Mac Miller , Complex , (November 30, 2013). …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… where the river Jordan flows call to the (German-speaking) Jews to return to the East, to relocate in the mythical … or the Austro-Hungarian Empire, that so many Germanized Jews around the 1880s saw as their permanent destination. … Isaachar (ed.), Studies in the Cultural Life of the Jews in England (Studies of the Folklore Research Center), …
Andalusian Nuba
… work to music and singing. In a similar manner, the Jews also adopted the Nuba as an essential musical component … in the art music of the Muslims of Morocco, but for the Jews of North Africa as well, especially within the … original. This process reflects the deep connection of the Jews of North Africa to Andalusian music and culture; it …