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1. Oh Lovely Parrot!
… Ayyayya Birds were sitting there, raised up high. … 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 …
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 …
"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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
2. El Merecimiento de Isaac (Im Afes Rova Haqen)
… Si el servicio de los sacrificios fue abandonado (If the ritual of the sacrifices was cancelled) This copla is a … Israel (1856-1932), a rabbi and hazzan active on the Island of Rhodes who was highly revered by our collaborators … כפור , איזמירנה, תר"ע. … 9617 … 7 … 40774 … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Year Cycle: Yamim Noraim (High Holy Days) … …
Sarah Harat
… Sana'a in 1922 to Abraham Khobara and Yonah (Khamama) from the Beit Halevi family. In 1930, when she was eight years … age of nineteen, Sarah married Obadiah Harat, son of the landlord Yehuda Harat. During the early stages of their … age when she would tap the rhythm of the female performers’ songs ( meshorerot ) with a small metal key. Sara Harat was …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… This document, in the form of a synoptic table, incorporates three versions of … wander from one yeshiva to the next through Lithuania and Poland, educating and feeding himself. Finally, he ended up … the synagogal modes and “Zemiroth” as well as Jewish Folk-Songs. At home I received an orthodox education and …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great … Jewish culture, with a new national repertoire of Zionist songs, the internationalization of Jewish scholarship, and … aboard the SS “Braga.” They arrived to Providence, Rhode Island on November 4, 1925 on their way to settle in …