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39-40. Golden Manangĕ + My Dear Mamuchi
… you caught a fever? Oh, can’t you say? O my dear, have you forgotten me? O jasmine flower, gold Manangĕ? 4. Get out, … one of the songs was composed. Neither song has explicitly Jewish content except that both the romantic couples were … who “makes use of the natural talents of the larger society, showing a more nativist influence than appears in …
38. Song About Love
… lives, she is giving life. (x2) Humans are praising God for the sake of love. (x2) 7. By speaking only good … a wide range of emotions from liking to passion, its Jewish Malayalam form ābāh or ahabah (a transliteration of … her more literal adaptation of the 1917 Jewish Publication Society rendering …
Rabbi David Buzaglo
… the early twentieth century. Under Attar, Buzaglo became a foremost performer of Andalusian Hebrew music in its … exponentially in the collective memory of the Moroccan Jewish diaspora. [3] After receiving a traditional Jewish … prayers and piyyutim to children at Ne’im Zemirot, a society maintained by the Jewish community of Casablanca. …
Yaakov Huri
… a single individual. This repertoire serves as a paradigm for evaluating the scope of Kiwi’s ethnography, its … a profile of the man, his ideals and his standing in society. We supplemented heir detailed testimony with a … as rabbi. Huri belonged to the Zionist sector of the Jewish community. This sector, unlike the yeshivah students …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… chants, some with words but most without, historically performed primarily by men, either solo or collectively, in a … as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is … style must consider the characteristic features of Hasidic society—the ambiance of each Hasidic court and the …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… in Iraq. Zaarur al-Kabbir was a source of inspiration for the younger musician. He owned the modern-styled … This generational tension between well-to-do Baghdadi Jewish families and their youngsters who loved music and … prevalent in early-twentieth century Iraqi Jewish society—as well the shifts in attitudes towards music-making …
Sarah Harat
… Shelomo Dov Goitein’s Hebrew essay “The Synagogue Does Not Forgive Insults: From the Conversations of a Yemenite … scholarly education, an unusual feature for young Yemenite Jewish girls at the time. Sarah was exposed to the … to an international event titled “Sacred Sounds: Belief and Society ,” held by the Center for Folklore and Cultural …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … and Geistesgeschichte . Jewish Studies in this formulation consisted of the commemoration of a people’s … to recover Jewish culture, economics, politics, and society. Yet something of that texts and tears, martyrs and …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… There are scholars of Jewish and Israeli culture whose crucial contributions … song (aka Zemer ‘ivri or Shirei Eretz Israel ) in its formative period (c. 1880-1940), Hacohen effectively … Prize for Lifetime Achievement - Special Contribution to Society and the State, for the year 2013. … Scholar of …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… The collection of historical Jewish field recordings at the Vernadsky National Library of … prayers and piyyutim (songs of religious content) for Sabbaths, Holydays and life cycle events recorded in … of the Museum of the Jewish Historical and Ethnographic Society in Saint Petersburg, carried out these recordings. …