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Rabbi David Buzaglo
… is an opportunity to revive his biography in our website. A musical and rabbinical prodigy since his early days, Rabbi … to the late 1940s, the “vision” period of Buzaglo’s life—was a crucial one. This is when he first became known … and early 1940s, Buzaglo capitalized on his exceptional musical abilities and focused less on the rabbinate, in …
Yaakov Huri recordings
… archive , which aimed to systematically document the musical traditions of the Baghdadi Jewish community. The collection includes synagogue liturgy, life cycle songs, domestic rituals, and readings of sacred …
Ezra Barnea
… an institution dedicated to the preservation of the Jewish musical heritage and its dissemination. He engaged in a vigorous effort to document extant Jewish musical traditions, collaborating in this endeavor with the … his young age. In the last two years of Rabbi Uziel's life, Barnea would come to the rabbi's house every day and …
Yaakov Huri
… by his children. As expected, this appreciation of his life is marked by fond memories and nostalgia for their … (from 1952 onwards) sought in Israel for a place where the musical tradition of their ancestors as they knew it was … units within each ‘eda, and therefore discards local musical lore in favor of a generic repertoire related to …
Book Review: Music’s Making - The Poetry of Music; The Music of Poetry
… me at all. To the contrary, I would like to hear a few musical things about it. There was nothing to read about … I would indeed like to know what objection my opponents, musically—objectively, have against my work. So please … Although the present reviewer is definitely a charter and lifetime member of the “wander haphazardly” school—to the …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… experiences, it was widely appreciated for its beauty, musical features, and spiritual power, emerging from … and rhythmic qualities. These two functions—the extramusical as the primary and the aesthetic as the … Textless songs have probably been common in Jewish life for a long time. This could be connected with the fact …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel Audio Examples
… used alongside the dissertation to demonstrate a variety of musical styles and to bring the musical analysis to life. The contents are drawn from Warkov’s field …
Flory Jagoda
… Jagoda has widely promulgated and enriched the Sephardic musical tradition in the United States. Born in 1923, in Sarajevo, she was raised in a Ladino-speaking and musical extended family and a grandmother who sang Sephardic … and a children's book document and honor Flory's life and career. Full biography at the Jewish Women's …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… administration and the Jews of the Comtat. [5] As regards musical records, the only document in our possession is a … books, including a "Commentary on Deuteronomy" and a "Life of Jethro", and it was opened to public religious … Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine, 1936-1940: Jewish musical life on the eve of World War II (Oxford: Clarendon …
Joe Elias
… to perform at the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife as one of the first performers of Ladino music in this … Spanish colonies). Joe passed away on April 10th, 2010. His musical work lives on through his son, Dan. See here …