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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 …
Léibele Schwartz
… from the tango scene. He carried out his first public musical performances in the modern orthodox Great Temple on … quarter, one of the four theaters that presented Yiddish musicals and vaudevilles during the Golder Era of Yiddish … Cantor Leibele Schvartz" Commentary by Edwin Seroussi The life of Léibele Schwartz exemplifies two issues in Jewish …
Sarah Harat
… ( The Yemenites: History, Communal Organization, Spiritual Life , ed. Menahem Ben-Sasson, Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, … henna and wedding events, [ 1 ] and in those occasions her musical skills surfaced already at a young age when she …
‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… Not much is known of the life of Rabbi Mordecai ben Yehudah Dato (1525? – … addition to ‘Lekhah Dodi.’ Even more important for the main musical argument of this Song of the Month (see below), the … with corrections apparently by Dato himself, includes a musical reference in its title, “Benigun anshei emunah’ i.e. …
19. Arrelumbre y arrelumbre/Y arrelumbre y arrelumbre
… her to leave her mother and go with him (v. 13-16). (19b) Musical variants of 19a, adding a description of the … Score and lyrics: … Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle … Ladino, Judeo-Spanish – Ladino, Ladino - …
Eres chiquita y bonita [Coplas de mateša] (5a)
… of a series of couplets sung at the swing as a poetic-musical dialogue between a young man and a young woman. The … Score and Lyrics: … Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle … Ladino, Judeo-Spanish – Ladino, Ladino - …
Lavaba la blanca niña (La vuelta del marido)
… as many others, is sung in concatenation; while two musical phrases are repeated many times in an AB/AB/AB … washing and drying the wool. … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean … Lavaba la blanca …
Revisiting a Forgotten Treasure in Philadelphia
… among scholars and collectors of Jewish music for its rich musical resources. The most substantial and valuable … in under the noses of Nazi soldiers while risking his life and the life of his ten-year old son Samuel, and managed to bring …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… to align synoptically the different events in Idelsohn’s life as he related them in the different versions of his … sounded beautiful to me, loved singing and had a very good musical memory, excellent for remembering melodies that he … left Libau in the spring of 1901 for Berlin to continue my musical education. Hebrew version: He kept his promise and …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern Jewish musical research. Idelsohn’s life traversed several important arenas of modern Jewish … artifacts that still define in many ways the Jewish musical imagination in both its scholarly and popular forms. …