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Sara Levi-Tanai
… Sara Levi-Tanai was an Israeli choreographer, playwright, and lyricist renowned for … Israel's cultural mosaic. Among her famous works are Shir Hashirim ("Song of Songs") and El Ginat Egoz ("To The Walnut …
Haim Louk
… Andalusian music (Ala), piyyutim , and songs from the Shir Yedidot tradition (the Moroccan Baqqashot ). … , and the Piyyut Festival , collaborating with leading Israeli musicians. In 2011, he was awarded the Ministry of … via Wikimedia Commons) … 73 … 41400 … A leading Israeli Paytan, representative of North African piyyut …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… (يوسف زعرور) was born in Baghdad in either 1902 or 1896—per Israeli immigration documents—to a family of ten children. … folk music respectively; Kurdish music (directed by Jamil Bashir), and Egyptian music and muwashshahat (directed by … in Baghdad as a Palestinian refugee during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war; see Dori 2022:198 ). Zaarur trained numerous …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… kavanah (devotional intention), yihud (unification), and lashir be’alma lehitpa’er (to sing for the sake of an … (2015), who focuses on the “contemplative” nigunim of the Israeli Habad Hasidim, and combines musicological … in an extensive study of a different sub-genre—the Israeli Hasidic dance-nigunim repertoire—by Yaakov Mazor, …