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Aharon Amram
… seven children, also took care of orphans, who were transferred to Sana'a, out of the fear that they would be converted … began performing at weddings in his town, Rosh Ha'ain, and across Israel, in places where there were Yemenite … recorded dozens of songs which became hits and are considered today to be authentic sources of Jewish Yemenite singing …
Elohim Eshala
… this long-play appears to be then a strategic decision geared to stress an essentialized “Israeli exoticism” that … as well as his American experience of 1949-1950 when he toured with Damari and recorded with her in New York City. … Archives of the National Library in Jerusalem. They are a cross-section of this rich and yet problematic musical …
The Tedeschian Community
… the rules of the Hebrew Nikkud, the Shva Na is only considered as a half-vowel. The Italian, and the Tedeschian … it appears in the end of a word, this new vowel can be compared to 'Pattach Genova.' [3] However, despite the motivation … have a specific geographical spot, and may be scattered across a big territory. The Tedeschian community was …
Hay ram galeh
… modern Egyptian song Hayrana Laih by Daoud Hosni that featured in our previous Song of the Month. Hay ram galeh was … Sephardic tradition of turning secular Arabic songs into sacred Hebrew ones. Halevi is certainly not a trained poet but … orthodox Sephardic Jews, Rabbi Ovadia Yossef, and performs across Israel and abroad. He is also an accomplished player …
Hayrana Laih
… stem from the popular songs he composed (more than five hundred), which he wrote for Egypt’s most popular singers of the … Egyptian music. [2] His songs and compositions were played across the Arab world, and are still performed and remembered today. The memorialization of Daoud Hosni is a matter of …
Bin Tavinu Liqnot Bina Ha'azinu
… for his piyyutim (a technique that is generally referred to as 'contrafactum'). A large portion of Najara's … Arab, Spanish and Greek songs, or on Hebrew piyyutim he favored. In the printed editions of Najara's songs, and also in … finally forgotten. With the rapid spread of his songs all across the Mediterranean Jewish world, the local singers, …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… (plural of lahan, tune or melody) to which Najara required his piyyutim to be sung are borrowed from the musical … Ottoman/Turkish musical culture, which up to then had been predominant in the Sephardi Jewish liturgy and piyyut singing … Baqqashot are performed today in various synagogues across Israel, in towns and cities such as Kiryat Shemona, …
Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World
… restless volatile, and vibrant musical culture. Firmly centered in the United States, klezmer has paradoxically moved back across the Atlantic as a distinctly 'American' music, played …
Brundibár: A Children’s Opera in Two Acts
… the children’s opera performed for representatives of the Red Cross by prisoners in the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1943. … … Prisoner … Prisoner Orchestra … Children's Opera … Red Cross … Hans Krása … Brundibár: A Children’s Opera in …
Operatic Performances in Terezםn: Krבsa’s Brundibar
… Theresienstadt for representatives from the International Red Cross in 1944. … 2 … Theatrical Performance During the … (Concentration Camp) … Children … Children's Opera … Red Cross … Brundibar … Rebecca Rovit … Alan Goldfarb … …