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32. La agonía del amante Rosa mia (CES)
… described it as “Turkish, known in Jerusalem”), whose model appears in several other Sephardic songs (e.g. …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… and Oriental pedigree and, to a certain measure, to modern colonial contexts, mostly French-Jewish. Yet, this … only, others much deeper that comprise, in my opinion, a modern development. There are of course aesthetic reasons … to the Sabbath of the pericope “Vayehi” in the tbaʿ (mode) Rasd dhil. The original melody of the Half Qaddish, …
Nahum Heiman
Natan Yonatan, Nahum Heiman's friend and writing partner says about his friend (in the…
Dobranotsh (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… Eduard Birnbaum of Königsberg published a short article modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first … Jewish Music on August 3, 1978, which would launch the very modern phenomenon subsequently labeled the “Jewish Baroque.” … proportions and contextualize it as a phenomenon of Jewish modernity’s drive to create a “normative” historical Jewish …
Sholom Secunda
Sholom Secunda was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson…
Revisiting a Forgotten Treasure in Philadelphia
The library of Gratz College is very well known among scholars and collectors of Jewish…
2. Pāloṭu paḻam Taruven (Parrot Song)
A popular “play song” usually accompanied by clapping and a circle dance, this is also…
Hopak (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…