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Léibele Schwartz
… Schwartz was born in Brod, Poland, on March 22, 1928 as Yehudah Leib Kirzner. He began his music studies as a child with his father, Yaakov, who was a cantor. He relocated to Argentine in … shows Léibele interspersed anecdotes and jokes between the songs. In the file kept by his daughter Sabrina, there is a …
Pinchas Borenstein
… Pinchas Borenstein was born in the small town of Jeziorna Królewska, a suburb of Warsaw, which was then part of the Kingdom of Poland under the Russian Empire (now Poland). He grew up in a … of the National Library of Israel, you can find a list of songs and recordings by Pinchas Borenstein , some of which …
Sara Levi-Tanai
… renowned for her significant contributions to dance and theater in Israel. Her works, deeply rooted in Jewish and … Yemenite traditions, significantly shaped Israel's cultural landscape. Sara Levi-Tanai was born in Jerusalem to a family … Her innovative teaching materials, including original songs and music, gained significant recognition and have …
"Esh'al elohai - Vehalleluya" (I will ask my God - Halleluja)
… Poem by Yosef ben Israel, signed Ani Yosef . The poem speaks of the vision of redemption, the return to Zion and settlement in the Land of Israel. This is an exceedingly popular poem, and it … grant you a good life). … 7 … 41783 … Kiryat Ono … With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen …
Joe Elias
… Joe Elias was born into a Sephardic family in Brooklyn. The youngest of seven children, Joe learned his songs on his mother’s knee, Sarah Elias . As a schoolteacher … collect songs at the Sephardic Home for the Aged in Coney Island and travelled across the world to other Ladino-speaking …
1. Oh Lovely Parrot!
… forest flowed with milk. Ayyayya Birds were sitting there, raised up high. Ayyayya 4. The … another place to dwell. The mention of Palur in these two songs and two others (songs 2 and 14) points to a tradition … a Jewish reference echoing the biblical description of the Land of Israel as “a land flowing with milk and honey” (for …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur (يوسف زعرور) was born in Baghdad in either 1902 or 1896—per Israeli immigration documents—to a … musics. Zaarur was also a prolific composer. He composed songs in diverse genres including the Egyptian taqtuqa ; … of the most eminent qanun players of his time in his homeland and beyond, he was a pivotal figure in the history of …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… Tish-nigunim in the Post-vernacular Era This study aims to trace the unique … type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European landscape: Hasidic tish-nigunim. Nigunim (Yiddish nign , … and melodies of Yiddish popular and Hebrew quasi-Hasidic songs that were instrumentally performed at Israeli Hasidic …
Yaakov Huri
… Yaakov Huri: An Iraqi Cantor in the Edith Gerson Kiwi Archive The recorded collection of the … his past, an unusual stance in the Zionist ideological landscape of that time whose main tenet was the “negation of … the entire liturgical year cycle of the synagogue; songs for the life cycle (circumcision, bat mitzvah and …
A Flowering Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not just) for Tu BiShvat
… El debate de las flores (Debate of the Flowers) is the name provided by scholars to a long … by Susana Weich Shahak , Cada Año Mijorado: Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Year Cycle , it is worthwhile to revisit this … song-bearer of the Judeo-Spanish tradition from the island of Rhodes. Susana Weich Shahak recorded two versions of …