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Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… On the eve of Passover, our Song of the Month for April 2014 is dedicated to H ad Gadya … to the custom of Provence, apparently written by a Sephardic Jew residing in Provence in the fifteenth century. … Only later the song was introduced to the traditions of the Sephardic and Oriental Jews and was translated into the …
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… The album includes folksongs in Ladino that Sephardic Jews used to sing in events … performed by the best folksingers, mostly women, from the Sephardic communities of Turkey and the Balkan who were …
Likhvod Hatanna Haelokai (In Honor of the Holy Tanna)
… celebrations on the eighteenth of Iyar—Lag Ba’Omer—among Sephardic and Ashkenazi communities in Israel, include four … in the same fashion. [4] The Hillula at Mount Meron and the Songs of Rabbi Shim’on Bar Yohai The Hillula in Meron begins … from a repertoire that spread in recent centuries to many Sephardic and Ashkenazi communities. Two of these famous …

Freylekhs (LKT)
… accompanied by singing... The possibility that such songs (e.g., frejlaxs ) were sung in other Ukrainian … to participate in this pilgrimage, until then essentially Sephardic. The musical repertoire of dance played by the … celebration when [one was] angry... perhaps... freylekhs -songs are the product of dance improvisation...” Levinson …
La Gallarda matadora
… 2 Petenera … Our Song of the Month is dedicated to Sephardic music and … with one another. In today's global 'world music' scene, Sephardic music (also known as Ladino music) and flamenco, …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… Example 6 Notation and 1st and 7th verses to the wedding song based on "E h ad mi yodea" found in I.L. Cahan's 1957 … of influence.” (Tabory, 1988: 66) Variations from Sephardic and Eastern Jewish communities “E h ad mi yodea” … (2012) pointed out a few variants found in different Sephardic communities. The primary differences between each …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… of the prayer and singing style known as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which originated among the Jewish communities … musical influences. Contents The tradition of “Jerusalem-Sephardic hazzanut and piyyutim The baqqashot singing … use of maqam . The use of maqam for liturgical poetry and song was based throughout the 17 th century on extensive …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… and reproducers of these stories than they do about the song’s actual historical past. Untangling these stories … what you think. It does not derive from Smetana nor from a Sephardic prayer. And an early Zionist pioneer did not … vols., 1914-1932) dedicated to the music of the “Oriental Sephardic” Jews, the distinguished musicologist Abraham Zvi …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… … In 1926, in “New Palestinean [sic] Folk Songs” – one of the earliest Zionist songbooks published in America – A. W. Binder (1895-1966) … in Latin letters in an inconsistent mix of Ashkenazic and Sephardic pronunciations. None of the songs have …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… centerpiece of the morning service for Rosh Hashanah in the Sephardic liturgy and appears also, since at least the early … (Ten Days of Repentance). While its prominence in the Sephardic and Yemenite rites is maintained to this day … As the High Holy Days season arrives, we dedicate again the Song of the Month to this text, that was already featured is …