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Moshe Preis
… Chazan Preis was told that he could not lead services for the High Holidays if he was not married. Mr. Pollak had … to officiate at the wedding of one of his congregant's children, who was to marry a British Jew. Subsequently, he officiated for Passover 1939 as guest cantor at Manchester Central …
Abraham Salman
… age of two, he studied music as a child in Baghdad’s school for blind Jewish children. The school was established in the 1920s and many … late 1980s. His virtuosity was also idiomatic, and he performed in a variety of genres, from the local Iraqi maqam to …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… Jewish music in Israel and international festivals. The performance of the liturgy, that daily, weekly and yearly … development. There are of course aesthetic reasons too for the lack of emphasis on the liturgical repertoires of … banim, a section of “Emet ve-emunah,” is sung mostly by the children of the congregation as a choir with the rhythmic …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… Bendayan on Friday, June 11, 2021, just weeks before her 99th birthday on June 29. Throughout Alicia’s long … period spanning seventy years. Alicia will be remembered for her extraordinary memory and her pleasant singing voice, … Protectorate in 1956. Alicia, her husband, and their four children arrived in Israel in 1962 and settled in Ashkelon. …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… piyyut “Purim, Purim, Purim lanu” (“Purim, Purim, Purim for us”) by Yosef Shalom Gallego. Born in Saloniki (then … stressing the popular joy traditionally expressed on Purim for this miraculous turn of events. “Purim, Purim, Purim … diziendo a los niyetos, The grandmother is telling the grandchildren, alimpiya il puelvo, kantones i loz techos. clean …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… of Irving Berlin — chattily written, without enthusiasm for challenging any of the myths, giving its hero the … authorial rambling and invention — this is maybe the book for you. Berlin died in 1989 at the age of 101. A … melody identified at all by Generation Z, that of my grandchildren. This is an issue which Kaplan does not …
Nili Belkind
… the politics of sound to show how music-making reflects and forms identities, and in the process, shapes communities. … mixed-city community centers to Palestinian refugee camp children’s clubs, alternative urban scenes and even a … worked as a world, Latin and reggae music product manager for Virgin megastores; label manager for RykoLatino and …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… Studying songs for Passover offers us a rich field of inquiry into the … repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness through music challenged the … is refracted anew through secular prisms and taught to children as part of nonreligious Yiddishist curricula. Its …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… to Niggun ‘Akedah. It will assess their thematic content, formal aspects, as well as their cultural contexts and … of the bound Isaac, and God, in turn, commends Abraham for his obedience and promises to bless and multiply his … Others connect the stories of parents killing their own children to prevent them from being forced to convert to …
Bernardo Feuer
… as the caretaker of a synagogue and the family had four children: Alter, Miriam, Isaac and the youngest, Bernardo. … especially of Feuer’s father. Feuer continued his studies for a brief period in Warsaw, though his family does not … with L. Herer. In 1930, the same year of his arrival, Feuer formed a liturgical choir in the Dr. Max Nordau synagogue. …