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Aharon Amram
… with Sana'a's best teachers, while also learning Math, History and Hebrew in a Jewish school. In 1950, as part of … Ha'ain and Ein Shemer. In school, his inclination towards music was noticed, and when he was fourteen, he … this activity, he received a special scholarship for music studies from the head of the Knesset (Israeli …
Almonds and Raisins
… director Russ Karel and narrator Orson Welles, scan the history of the genre from some of the earlier films such as … life. Furthermore, many of these hundreds of films were musicals that prominently featured Yiddish music and Almonds and Raisins gives a special emphasis to …
About the Jews of Yemen, A Vanishing Culture
… This film, by renowned ethnomusicologist Johanna Spector, addresses the history and rituals of the Jews of Yemen, both in Yemen and in Israel. The music and songs of the Yemenite tradition are a main focal …
Hora
… r Moshe (Musa) Berlin (b. 1937), who took his tunes from musical scores and records published in the U.S., used the term Rumanian Hora (see musical example below) for a pair of slow Hora and Freylekhs … folk songs with the Hora 6 , and indeed, many songs in the history of Israeli folksongs were written in the context of …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… on the eve of the Russian Orthodox Easter, two Russian musicians met in an encounter that was to have impacts on classical and popular music to this day. Vladimir Stasov, music historian and promoter of the New Russian National …
With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen
… The Jews of Yemen possess rich musical traditions, which have always been of interest to scholars of Jewish music, just as their unique cultural history has attracted the attention of Jewish scholars from …
Hayrana Laih
… in the Arab world, but also has connections to Jewish musical contexts and musicians. The lyrics of Hayrana Laih were written by Ahmed … Egyptians covering a crucial and turbulent period in the history of Egypt and its Jews. Their story shows the extent …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… line of the opening stanza, is the refrain (same words and music are repeated) and x, the last line of the rest of the … Shofet kol ha’aretz.” This is the earliest mention of the music of our poem, and obviously it indicates that in the … , 1906, vol. 11, p. 306. Edwin Seroussi. “ Toward a history of Jewish oral traditions: The singing of the prayer …
Hanukkah Blessings
… of the candles occurred in community contexts, special musical settings were arranged. Our Song of the Month … Samuel David (1836-1895). Born in Paris, David received his musical education at the Conservatoire of Paris, where he … Hanoch Avenary, The Ma’oz Z ur Tune: New Facts for its History, in Encounters of East and West in Music (Tel Aviv: …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… singing other liturgical texts. The melody consists of two musical phrases repeated according to the aaba scheme. … U'ak. … From the upcoming release of JMRC's-Anthology of Musical Traditions in Israel: The Historical Recordings of … critical era of deep social and cultural transition in the history of the Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old …