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Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… Jews used to sing in events of the life cycle in their communities in Turkey, the Balkans and Israel. The … … Balkan music … Field work … Field recordings … Spanish … Eastern Sephardi … Susana Weich-Shahak … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean … שושנה וייך-שחק …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… in the repertoire of Provençal and Central-European Jewish communities prior to its earliest appearance in print, … the melody of the Italian song Alla fiera dell’est (‘At the Eastern Fair’) composed by the Italian singer and …
Had Gadya
… in the repertoire of Provençal and Central-European Jewish communities prior to its earliest appearance in print, … based off the Italian song Alla fiera dell’est (‘At the Eastern Fair’) composed by the Italian singer and …
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… By the early 17 th century, there were three Jewish communities living in Amsterdam: Beit Shalom (founded around … founders and managers of international trade organizations. Eastern and central European Jews began arriving in Holland … of this synagogue is the result of a mixture of Western and Eastern elements. A similar fusion is found in the …
Music of the Ghetto and the Bible
… and conductor Lazare Saminsky (1882-1959), with Jewish communities in his homeland, the Russian Empire and … regarding the authenticity of Jewish music in the East. … 1 … 34159 … New York … Bloch … … 1934 … Research … …
Abyadi Ana
… the wedding ceremony (usually on the day before) in Jewish communities throughout the Middle East and North Africa. At the center of the ceremony stands … paste on the skin of the bride (usually hands, in some communities also on the feet). In some communities the …
‘I’m Sorry, It’s Yom Kippur’: Atonement through Punk (and Traditional Jewish Music)
… best known to the general public), [2] who have, in the least, changed their clothing in order to perform religious … thought, 'Okay, what if I take all the ‘fire and sword and beast’ of this holiday with a pillar of salt, and instead … access and transform Jewish tradition, and helps Jewish communities to be welcoming sanctuaries for people of all …
Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… from mainstream Judaism. During that period, other Karaite communities were founded across Palestine—in Ramleh and … of the Karaites was balanced between Europe and the Near East. During the next few hundred years, additional Karaite … Egypt and Byzantium as well as in Crimeria, Lithuania, and Eastern Poland. During that period, the development of the …
Brakha Tzefira
… collecting songs and melodies from oriental Jewish communities, Bedouins, and Arabs, which were then arranged … Tzefira In relation to Tzefira's role as mediator between eastern melodies and the forming 'Israeli' music, the recent … . [4] The expression 'art music' is problematic to say the least. It comes to signify what is sometimes called …
Elohim Eshala
… late Romantic techniques employed to represent the “Middle East,” underscores the composer's classical European … as the solo clarinet in the opening that recalls in fact Eastern European Jewish music. The attempt in the first … was grounded on the assumed social isolation of the Jewish communities in Yemen from the surrounding Muslim majority, …