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Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… Sephardic communities, emphasizing Spanish-Portuguese and North African versions in the article entitled “Songs of Grief … maqam-oriented school of the Ades Synagogue of the Aleppan Jews. For many years, Nehemiah was cantor and preacher at …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… to the early dissemination in Western Sephardic and North African Jewish communities of the new style of religious … in “Imrei no’am,” recounts the injunction imposed on the Jews of Persia and their salvation by Esther and Mordecai, …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… treasured within her memory the Judeo-Spanish songs of the North Moroccan Sephardic community, playing a substantial … Ballads, Wedding Songs, and Piyyutim of the Sephardic Jews of Tetuan and Tangier, Morocco (1983). Alicia’s adult … de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto de Estudios Africanos, 1952. Larrea Palacín, Arcadio de. Cancionero …
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 …
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 …
From Destruction to Rebuilding in the Iberian Peninsula
… Peninsula just two centuries after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and Portugal. The article will characterize … it to prosper and become a bridge between West-European and North-African traditions. The article will examine the Sephardi …
Léibele Schwartz
… Alter. In addition, Léibele was also cantor at the Polish Jews’ Brit Abraham Synagogue (known as “Shil de Antezana”, … liturgical repertoire shows his deep connection to the North American and European scenes of cantorial art during …