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A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… al-Sheikh (1900-1970). However, it belongs to a genre of popular songs that draw heavily from folk styles from the … in Israel. The song was made famous by its recording by the popular singer Yehoram Gaon, whose family is of Eastern … resistance to centripetal forces affecting the religious culture of the Jews from Islamic countries in Israel. …
Dudu Tassa
… Daud to Dudu: Israeli rock star makes classic Iraqi songs popular again ' . Radio France Internationale, (2019). …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… / فوق النخل) “Fog al-Nakhal,” is nowadays one of the most popular songs in the Middle East. It is a muwwashshah, … history, one can see how “Fog al-Nakhal” was canonized as a popular Arab song through the disbursement of commercial … 2017. Date Accessed: 10 April 2022. https://www.thejc.com/culture/music/composer-brian-elias-music-1.436356 [6] …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… For example, the transcription made by Idelsohn to the popular wedding song "Maq’helot ‘am", a poem by Mordecai … a version different than the one that eventually became popular in the contemporary practice of the descendants of … agent of the Society for Jewish [original says “Hebrew”] Culture and Ethnography. He was sent to our city on behalf …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… the forgotten voices of many Sephardic artists extremely popular a century and more ago, but also expands the … >>> “Los judíos españoles de Oriente: Lengua y literatura popular,” Buletin de la Institución Libre de Enseñanza IX, … Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture, 2006) … Molho, Michael 1960 >>> Literatura …
1. Los árboles de almendra (Jacob Algava)
… recorded version of this cantiga . It became extremely popular in the modern Ladino repertoire after it appeared in … song in 1922 (Orfeon 13125, see Bresler ). In most modern popularized versions, the last line of the second stanza is …
65. El baile de los falsos (Sida Musafija)
… This is a Judeo-Spanish contrafact of an extremely popular dance melody of the early twentieth century made … version as La Mattchiche , or Matchiche . Evidently, it was popular in Sarajevo where the linguist Julius Subak recorded … Mediterranean, living under the aegis of French-inspired culture, reacted immediately to this hit and proceeded as …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… far beyond this constricting narrative to recover Jewish culture, economics, politics, and society. Yet something of … the Jewish musical imagination in both its scholarly and popular forms. But Idelsohn the man himself remains an … to HOM IX (1932), he writes “In 1918 I needed a popular tune for a performance of my mixed choir in …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… origin, klezmer tunes, and melodies of Yiddish popular and Hebrew quasi-Hasidic songs that were … by various courts, and thus represented a “pan-Hasidic” popular repertoire. Finally, most of the nigunim included in … and Russian elites, as well as from Ukrainian peasant culture. A close examination of these reference points …

Dueling Nativities: Zehava Ben Sings Um Kulthum
… 6 … 2 … Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture … 42450 … 202–30 … Durham … Israel … Palestine … Politics … Popular Culture … Israeli … Dueling Nativities: Zehava Ben …