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My Path to Jewish Music
… deep within his people and lives in and through this community, however distant or alienated he may seem from it. … has proven that the traditional songs of the Babylonian and Yemenite Jewish communities correlate with those of today’s … times of the Temple in Jerusalem, through the Babylonian-Yemenite tradition, the music of the golden period in Spain, …
Translating Tropes (and Psalmodies): New Sources on Steve Reich’s Ethnographic Imports
… Arabist. She also recommended Reich to meet the prominent Yemenite Rabbi Yosef Kapach (Qafih) , with whom Spector … (at the time academic secretary of the JMRC and expert on Yemenite Jewish music) as well as Prof. Andre Hajdu and … mentioned with in the Baghdadi, Kurdistani and Yemenite community where these people, hopefully older, will not have …
Lekha Eli Teshuqati: Experiencing total self-surrender to God in song
… repertoire. The manner of performance varies from community to community: it can be sung by the congregation, … among non-Sephardic audiences unfamiliar with the poem. Yemenite singer Yair Gadasi composed a melody for Lekha Eli Teshuqati , which was popularized in 1995 by fellow Yemenite singer Zion Golan, and later, in 2004, by Yoav …
The Modernity of Piyyut Creativity: Ozreni El Hay Lehakhni'a
… (1905; reprinted in New York in 1919 on behalf of the large community of Jewish immigrants from Aleppo) and Shirei Nai’m … probably to the Ladino-speaking majority of the Sephardic community in the city. Figure 1: ‘Ozreni El Hay Lehakhni’a’ … of the Elnadav family, Joseph, Netanel and Refael. This Yemenite family from Jerusalem was considered a particularly …
27. The Elegantly Adorned Bride
… the bride in traditional dress and elaborate jewelry at a community party the night before her wedding. This custom is … to the traditional “henna” celebrations of Bene-Israel, Yemenite, and other Mizrachi Jews, which have gained wide … and the two women who recorded it in 2001 were from that community. … 52 … 40 … 7 … 44254 … Splendid Singing Birds: …
9-10. Saperi tama temima (Tell, pure and innocent)
… becomes apparent. The song was well known in the Jewish community of Palestine before 1948 outside the Yemenite community, and some of its stanzas, set to various … the Inbal dance company in 1956, and Mordecai Seter in his "Yemenite Suite" (Bahat, 1995: 216). Here only the recorded …
Sarah Harat
… Does Not Forgive Insults: From the Conversations of a Yemenite Blacksmith” ( The Yemenites: History, Communal Organization, Spiritual Life , … the sacred poetry, the Diwan, performed by the men of her community. Her grandfather, Yosef Yitzhak Halevi, enriched …
Adiel Ben Shalom
… Science from the Hebrew University. He specializes in the Yemenite music and the melodies of the Diwan Jewish community of Tsa'na, collaborating with Prof. Edwin Seroussi. Expertise includes Yemenite folk songs and women's singing. He contributed to …
6-7. Se'i yona veshim'ini (Go, Dove, and hear Me)
… in his "Suite Poulaire" (1950), by Mordechai Seter in his "Yemenite Suite" (1966). and Oedoen Partos in his "Yemenite Song". Reuven Yaron arranged it for a three-part … from Central Yemen … 1484 … Central Yemen … Diwan … Jewish community of Palestine … Shira … Tawshiḥ … Yemen Jewery … …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… a school for cantors. He gave me a place in a Bavarian community. Brainin approved my action in becoming untrue to … 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 …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… in the institutionalization of the music life in the Jewish community of late Ottoman Palestine (Hirschberg 1995, ch. … Visitors of many backgrounds came to see him, Hasidim, Yemenites, Arabs, falla h im, [3] Georgians, Sephardic … was afraid to leave us alone in his hands and so he asked a Yemenite who worked at the school to accompany us. All the …
Naomi Bahat-Ratzon
… and folk dance of various cultures, among them the Druze community in the villages of the Golan Heights, and the … contribution to the research of the music and dance of the Yemenite Jewish communities in Israel. Along with Bahat they …


