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Music, Muslims and Jews
… of Islam and the expanding Arab conquests throughout the Middle East, North Africa and Spain, the vast majority of … living in lands where Arab and Persian cultures and languages predominated. Jews of these lands absorbed, integrated … the end of European colonial rule in North Africa and the Middle East. The relocation of almost all Jews from Arab …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… Citizen Azmari: Making Ethiopian Music in Tel Aviv . Middletown, CT: Wesleyen University Press. … A retrospective …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… the whole piece. This rhythmic-melodic peak appears in the middle of the third section out of four, creating a sort of … such as Beimel and Nadel, arranged and published in the pages of his journal. Winz's source for this nign is yet … best conjectural. The following cases show additional lineages in transmission of this nign in other Hasidic …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… is nowadays one of the most popular songs in the Middle East. It is a muwwashshah, “girdle” song, a … “Fog al-Nakhal” also appears in the repertoire of several Middle Eastern communities and nations. In the context of … of “Fog al Nakhal” that include alternating solo-chorus passages, Fakhri and his chorus sing simultaneously throughout …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… 1913 in Ottoman Palestine from Jewish singers belonging to Middle Eastern communities living in Jerusalem. Isaac Lurie … recordings are among the earliest surviving specimens of Middle Eastern Jewish musical traditions. By nature of the …
The Idelsohn Project
… Jewish intellectual life, suspended between Europe and the Middle East; and the understudied topic of nationalist …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… to all the children of the diaspora [bnei ha-galut] in the Middle East. Back then it was hard to understand why this … Bible in its real form and in its entirety. Beyond the passages and the fragmented verses that are quoted in the … of Jewish national renewal in Idelsohn’s eyes. These are images typical of the writing of Second ‘aliyah intellectuals, …
El lifne [sic] har Galil (shir hatunah)
… piece is Yigdal Elohim hai ve-yishtabah . In Sephardic and Middle Eastern traditions this anthem is sung at the end of …
Nehemia Allony
… studies, literature, language and Hebrew poetry in the Middle Ages, founder and director of the Institute of Microfilmed …
Nahôn libbo is hujire – Whole-heartedly is the fearful believer
… of the famed musicologist. Nahôn libbo opens the album’s middle sub-section, which seems to address the subject of … Worte and number 8, A nigun on a soff that complete the middle sub-section of the work. Idelsohn 1923b, no. 193 …