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Moshe Attias
… the ambivalent aspects of modern Moroccan Jewish identity. Religious zeal intertwines with modern secular practices, … As saint veneration was and still is a hallmark of Moroccan religious devotion, hillulot , the yearly celebrations of … version of Elmediouni’s hit “ Ana Nahibak ”) or his lifetime partner on the stage, the ‘oud player Nino Bitton, …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… on the biblical and post-biblical legends pertaining to his life, including the Exodus from Egypt, the receiving of the … by Meldola, includes piyyutim and other non-canonical religious texts that could be integrated into the liturgy …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… and Torah scholar from Aleppo. [4] Over the course of his life, he, who was blind and relied on a scribe to record his … sang in Arabic and recordings of them performing Jewish religious hymns in Hebrew are rare. In that regard, the … facilitating musical exchange was the migratory paths of religious students and pilgrims: Egyptian Sheikha Sakina …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… music to non-Western music, most particularly, the music of religious and ethnic communities in British Palestine. In … and analysis of the liturgical, para-liturgical and non-religious music of the non-European Jewish communities whose … of Israel. Beyond her local foci of research and public life concerns in Israel, Gerson-Kiwi is a very significant …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… (5). And thus, it would seem that this chronicle of Unger’s life promulgates a non-identarian perception of Jewishness as a lived experience that entails a flux of religious, national, and cultural configurations. But … or not, Unger did not gain international fame during his lifetime. Shortly after his career took off, he was forced …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… of what was Jewish – or at least ‘Jew-ish’ – about Berlin’s life and achievements. Berlin transcended Abie by realizing … of Jewish figures upon [inter alia] … cultural and economic life and the arts and sciences … deeply informed books that … friends, throughout his career, were also ethnic (if not religious) Jews. A book in such a series might be reasonably …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… and North African Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew song, which had developed starting in the … Sephardic-American artist. Jagoda, slightly later in her life, became one of the most remarkable folk performers of …
Moshe Cordova
… early years there is meager. A turning point in his life was the move to Istanbul, together with many of the … editor of the important collection of Ottoman piyyutim (religious poems), Shirei Israel be-Eretz Haqedem “Songs of … music declined for diverse reasons. The general drop in religious observance and synagogue attendance among Turkish …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… on the other hand, spoke forcefully about his own Jewish religious faith and practices, including his own bar mitzvah … and Shaw perhaps only marginally so. Later in his life Smith would serve as cantor in a Black Jewish synagogue …
Arabs - Jews - Music
… history, with the rise of the modern national/ethno-religious conflicts in the Middle East that followed the … countries, the sociocultural milieus in which they came to life and encounters between Arab and Jewish musicians from …