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Arabs - Jews - Music
… the expanding Arab conquests throughout the Middle East, North Africa and Spain, the vast majority of the Jews of Antiquity found themselves living in lands where …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… during Operation Moses of 1984-5, when over 6,000 Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel) were airlifted from refugee camps in … en-route in the desert between their points of origin in Northern Ethiopia and Sudan, or in the overcrowded, … of reinventing their Ethiopianness, and of mobilizing the African and Ethiopian diasporas to stake a claim for respect …
El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… cross-cultural interactions characteristic of modern North African Jewish music. The other side of our record contains … song, La’ad aromimkha malki . Crossing boundaries between Jews and Muslims, between Jews from the Eastern and Western …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… (b. 1930 in Buenos Aires), scion to a family from Stawiski (northeast Poland, near Bialystok), refers in this excerpt to … of the Haggadah in Arabic…and they were Hassidic Ashkenazi Jews born in Israel. This means that Goelman’s inquiry had a … אִילַּה הוּא! To briefly illustrate one of the North African versions of “Ehad mi yode’a” in Judeo-Arabic, here …
Mizmor le-david (Psalm 29)
… communities. The tunes used by the Western Sephardi Jews are strikingly similar to those used at the synagogues … in the past and of the ongoing presence of hazzanim of North African origin in Western Sephardi synagogues. Prior to the …
Shema' qoli
… for this poem in other Sephardi communities, especially in North Africa. This similarity shows the ancient pedigree of some …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German … and early British Palestine, Lithuanian Jewish South Africa, and Midwestern American Reform Judaism. What is … central Jerusalem founded in 1905, bordered by Geula to the north, Mekor Baruch to the west, David Yellin Street to the …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… remained in possession of the family’s heirs in South Africa. It was digitized on our behalf by Idelsohn’s … Mažeikiai], Semogalen [i.e in the district of Samogitian in northwestern Lithuania] who had to give up his trade and … Upon Zangwill’s question, how can I return to Russia, where Jews are so maltreated, I answered that I prefer to be with …
Jews in Gibraltar and the music of their synagogues
… Jews in Gibraltar and the music of their synagogues: An … hundred Jews comprising a “multicultural” community mixing North African with Western Sephardic traditions already dwelled in …
Qinot Performed by Hazzan Abraham Beniso
… Peninsula, just two centuries after the expulsion of Jews from Spain and Portugal. This distinctive community … between the traditions of Western Europe and those of North Africa. In a recent study conducted by Ariel Lazarus ( see …