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Moshe Attias
… he had towards the way the State of Israel treated Moroccan Jews (see more below), he remained a local patriot. A … point to a dialogue with the mainstream of Israeli Oriental pop, as shown by love songs such as the … recruited his artistic gifts to advance the status of the Oriental Jewry in general and the Moroccan Jewry in …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… in the sixteenth century that continues amongst Syrian Jews today (Kligman 2009; Shelemay 1998). “ Yom Yom Odeh ” … pizmonim. Many of them continue to be sung by Syrian Jews around the world, where Taboush’s legacy, his persona … of Remembrance and Representation.” Ph.D. diss., School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Doubleday, Veronica. …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… his A Voice Still Heard: The Sacred Song of the Ashkenazic Jews (University Park and London, 1976, pp. 100-101) … Idelsohn’s introduction to volume 7 of the Thesaurus of Oriental Jewish Melodies (1932, p. xxxix), which also refers … melodies.” Figure 5. A. Z. Idelsohn, Thesaurus of Oriental Hebrew Melodies , vol. 7, no. 295 This version is …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… and settled in Jerusalem. There he founded the Archive for Oriental Music at the Hebrew University. Edith Gerson-Kiwi … vividly transpires in her encounters with Middle Eastern Jews eternalized in her voluminous recordings. Edith … I - Zwei Aufsaetze: Die Musik im Volksleben Nordafrikas; Orientalische Musik und Antike (in German) Lachmann …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… of prayers for the Ninth of Av among the Sephardic and Oriental Jewish communities. The identity of the author is … maqam-oriented school of the Ades Synagogue of the Aleppan Jews. For many years, Nehemiah was cantor and preacher at … in Neo-Aramaic (the vernacular language of the Kurdish Jews), Kurmanji, Hebrew and Arabic. He was a sought-after …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… from minority communities which inhabited Latvia, namely, Jews, Roma, Russians, Germans, Lithuanians, Poles, … Meir Shimon Geshuri argued that “Our music must remain Oriental in character, since we were an Oriental people in the Land of Israel” (Geshuri 1943). A …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… issues emerged during early fieldwork among Moroccan Jews in Israel, it was always a peripheral topic, and mostly … liturgical repertoires mark sonic difference between Jews and Muslims in Morocco. They comprise an intimate space … to the diasporic Jewish commonwealth of Sephardic and Oriental pedigree and, to a certain measure, to modern …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… in the contemporary practice of the descendants of Aleppo Jews in Jerusalem (see example 2). Example 1: "Maq’helot … here, and also to collect melodies [“neginot”] from the Oriental Jews (such as Yemenites, Maghrebis, and Persians, … recordings (August 1, 1913) Lurie encountered the only "non-Oriental" Jew, Yaacov, a carpenter (plotnik) from the …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… words of the song are ‘Ehad manda’i’. The tune sounds to me Oriental. A few years ago, I heard the song ‘Ehad mi yode’a’ … He indeed agrees that the tune he sings bears Mizrahi (Oriental) or Arabic elements. Unlike few other Aramaic … of the Haggadah in Arabic…and they were Hassidic Ashkenazi Jews born in Israel. This means that Goelman’s inquiry had a …
The Idelsohn Project
… It emerged from his problematic racial theories about Jews and his ethnographic search for a primordial ur-sound … (1929) and his monumental ten volumes titled Hebräisch-orientalischer Melodienschatz (1914-1932). Yet, in spite of … public emotions; the distinctive physiognomy of Jewish Orientalism and its ties to early Arab- Jewish …