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Elohim Eshala
… performance by men and children accompanies the Yemenite Jews in Sabbaths and holidays, as well as their family … of the melody of Elohim Eshala by Israeli composers of Western art and popular music during the 1950’s. … to create a new Israeli sound that will combine modern Western compositional techniques with the “authentic” …
Brakha Tzefira
… in Jerusalem, where most of the residents were Sephardic Jews from Salonika. Tzefira had unpleasant memories from her … as well as that of the Ashkenazi teachers who came from a Western European background, to the oriental melodies. … the recognition of the acceptance of their own music among Western teachers. Her success in Shefeyah motivated her …
Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… number of musical systems, some of which resemble the Western musical modes and scales. Although, for the most … a form of synthesis, as contact between the Eastern and Western communities became closer; the intricacies of … HaḲaraim BeYisrael, 1979-1981. --------- The Karaite Jews in Eastern Europe . Ramleh: Mahon Tiferet Yosef, 2001. …
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… language and language of oral creation of the Ashkenazi Jews of both Western and Eastern Europe, whereas in the latter region it … the folksongs of the Ashkenazi Jews bare resemblance to Western European folksongs, Slavic songs from different …
Abyadi Ana
… Some of the most complex Henna ceremonies among Jews took place in Morocco where a special repertoire of … ceremony remains very popular, and is performed also by Jews from areas that did not have a Henna tradition before … twentieth century, in one of the main Jewish communities of western Algeria, Tlemcen or Oran (Waharan), and spread …
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… the 16 th and 17 th centuries, descendants of the exiled Jews immigrated to the Netherlands from Spain and Portugal. … (Nusah) The synagogue conducts prayers according to the Western European Sephardic tradition, with minimal, late … style of this synagogue is the result of a mixture of Western and Eastern elements. A similar fusion is found in …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… in an article on the Zionist movement in Stryj/Stryi (in Western Ukraine). [7] More interesting however is the … where the river Jordan flows call to the (German-speaking) Jews to return to the East, to relocate in the mythical … or the Austro-Hungarian Empire, that so many Germanized Jews around the 1880s saw as their permanent destination. …
Andalusian Nuba
… work to music and singing. In a similar manner, the Jews also adopted the Nuba as an essential musical component … The Nuba is a multi movement work (similar to the suite in western music), with a very complex system of connections … music. Seemingly, the intervals are parallel to those of western music (tones and semi-tones), and if one would …
Hora (LKT)
… hora, the primary form of the genre among East European Jews, is common in northeastern Romania and among Bukovina Ukrainians. Among Yiddish-speaking Jews, the triple-meter hora is also called londre or landre … meaning is a binary rhythmic form at a moderate tempo. In western Moldavia the term can also refer to the zhok form. …
Lanse (LKT)
… “There are also ‘cosmopolitan repertoire’ couple dances of Western and Central European origin’ such as lances, pa de … padekater, quadrille, polka, waltz, etc... played for both Jews and non-Jews.” Feldman 1994, p. 10 . “‘R. Siminovitz, with a …