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Responsorial Singing
… — more likely reflects early synagogue responsorial forms. Yemenite Jews have preserved the troping of ' halleluyah ' by the …
Moshe Cordova
… Europeans) since at least the late 1910s. It was founded by Jews of Italian origin who had broken away from the main … di Constantinopoli (Community of Foreign Jews of the Spanish-Portuguese Rite of Istanbul). Their … cantor Refael Yair Elnadav (1921-2012). Elnadav, half Yemenite and half Sephardic, became the caretaker of …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… – On to Our Land.” Binder indicates that this is a Yemenite melody and gives no attribution for the text. In … or lyricists, though two of the melodies are indicated as “Yemenite” in origin and one is called “Arabian Love Song.” … of the songs in Binder’s book, would sound familiar to most Jews with a religious background but would be meaningful to …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… to Berlin, the rapidly growing hub for Eastern European Jews seeking modern education, studied at a gymnasium and … his period, Geshuri found such an ancient repository in the Yemenite Jewish musical traditions. But in addition, and … activists at that time, he found an affinity between Yemenites and Ashkenazi Jews from Poland (i.e. not from …
Seliha-Selihot
… The Seliha genre blossomed during the golden age of the Jews in Spain during which many were written and their style … on the passing year. Sephardic and oriental Jews maintain the tradition of reciting Selihot during this month, most communities during the whole month (Yemenites recite it for half of the month). 'Each Jewish …
Hay ram galeh
… The zenith of this practice among Sephardic and Oriental Jews and the model for subsequent creativity is found in the … radio broadcasts and later on via musical films. Jerusalem Jews embedded in the modern Egyptian Arab culture in … century truly a multi-ethnic one. Persian, Kurdish, Yemenite and Bucharian Jews joined the ranks of the Aleppo …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… Oriental Melodies, which was a comprehensive study of the Yemenite community in Palestine. Idelsohn was particularly … Upon Zangwill’s question, how can I return to Russia, where Jews were so maltreated, I answered that I prefer to be with … which became very bulky, and I had to separate from it the Yemenite Poetry, which was late published separately under …

Sher
… and Kherson regions). Was the šer known only to Ukrainian Jews? Certainly not. Although we have no data from the … it does mean that it was not known there previously. The Jews could not have adopted the dance from the Ukrainians … developed dance forms of their own--the Hasidim and the Yemenites. Of the former, only the wedding dance, the sher, …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… Upon Zangwill’s question, how can I return to Russia, where Jews are so maltreated, I answered that I prefer to be with … from each of the exisitng ethnic groups, for instance, the Yemenites, Babylonians, Persians, Aleppoites, Daghestanis, … printed here five years ago; Shire Teman , an anthology of Yemenite poetry that I collected and annotated and the …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… prayer books even before the final expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. Moreover, nocturnal study and … sung are borrowed from the musical culture of the Sephardi Jews of Spain (tunes of Judeo-Spanish songs) and of the … (such as the Persian, Bukharian, Iraqi, Kurdish and Yemenite congregations). The final crystallization of the …