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Rabbi David Buzaglo
… is an opportunity to revive his biography in our website. A musical and rabbinical prodigy since his early days, Rabbi … Buzaglo became a foremost performer of Andalusian Hebrew music in its southern tradition from Marrakesh and … attribute this contrafactum (setting of religious texts to secular melodies) to Rabbi David Buzaglo, who was exposed to …
Yaakov Huri
… relations dominating the encounters between European ethnomusicologists and their subjects of inquiry in Israel. Our … (from 1952 onwards) sought in Israel for a place where the musical tradition of their ancestors as they knew it was … and desire to bring people closer to religion, especially secular people. He did not act out of coercion or a desire …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… study aims to trace the unique characteristics of a type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European … Yiddish folk songs. [15] Since early modernity, the secular Yiddish songs sung by women and girls became an … example 3 and similar nigunim, on one hand, and traditional secular Yiddish songs, on the other, arises from a …
Shabbat and Year Cycle Songs from the Collection of James Levy
… reflects James Levy's profound connection to his father's musical legacy and the enduring cultural traditions of … of the Levy family, this collection integrates sacred and secular influences from Gibraltar, Morocco, Argentina, and … Comprising over 350 songs, it represents a distinctive musical heritage, preserving the melodies of past …
James Levy
… The musical lore of James Levy's family has deep roots in … Presence in Latin America ). He also composed liturgical music. Following his father's death, Samuel moved to … is extremely varied and shows connections between secular music and sacred music, as well as Spanish, British, …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… in the Jewish past. A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern … of Hebrew in Ottoman Palestine, the creation of a new secular Jewish culture, with a new national repertoire of … contexts of his family and social context, sanctified as a secular saint of Jewish sound, whose life was characterized …
Kol Nidrei (Gebet am Jom Kipur) – Kol Nidrei (Yom Kippur Prayer)
… approach that challenged established categories in Jewish music research. This concept was already introduced in the … regarding the proper foundations of modern Jewish art music – the Eastern-European domestic folklore versus … stance for equilibrium and co-existence between the secular and the sacred. [2] Younger than both Engel and …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… history is complex, revealing a number of interrelated musical and textual settings. Looking into the information … of different composers, such as the prominent Iraqi-Jewish musician Salah al-Kuwaity (1908-1986), and in some cases it … 1947-1954. Ghazali’s version included the above-mentioned secularized text concerning unrequited love, attributed to …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… of its contents in the wider context of Hasidic music research is a desideratum. The present essay, focusing … source it was reprinted in M. Beregovski, Old Jewish Folk Music: The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregovski … in Eastern Europe before forsaking them in favor of secular Zionism. For example, Section C of Beregovski’s nign …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and music. The neighborhood had grown around an absorption … Tourny 2019). My interests lay elsewhere; my focus was on secular music traditions, as I believed these would reflect … Ethiopian Jews into hegemonic Jewish Israeliness. Studying secular musical traditions that Beta Israel had shared with …