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Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… Childhood and early musical career Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur (يوسف زعرور) was born … 1896—per Israeli immigration documents—to a family of ten children. As with most Baghdadi Jews, Zaarur attended … al-Kabbir was a source of inspiration for the younger musician. He owned the modern-styled coffeehouse Sawwas on …
Chuklä 'äilaymä
… Chuklä 'äilaymä ("My little child") is a children's song from the town of Kuba ( Ghubä in Juhuri) … will be a hero. … 8 … 7 … 41487 … Be'er Sheva … The Music of the Mountain Jews … Asia … Folk songs … Judeo-Tat - …
Flory Jagoda
… Singer, musician, and composer Flory Jagoda has widely promulgated and enriched the Sephardic musical tradition in the United States. Born in 1923, in … the time she was 80. Two documentaries and a children's book document and honor Flory's life and career. …
Sarah “Shorty” Elias
… Rabbinic family of Monastir. Together, they had seven children, who grew up in the center of the Monastirli … community in America, and to whom they taught the music of their childhoods. Joe Elias , the youngest child, … his parents. Shorty Elias died in Brooklyn, NY, 1965. Her music and voice survive in her son’s recordings. See some of …
Joe Elias
… into a Sephardic family in Brooklyn. The youngest of seven children, Joe learned his songs on his mother’s knee, Sarah … Folklife as one of the first performers of Ladino music in this country in the current epoch. After his … Spanish colonies). Joe passed away on April 10th, 2010. His musical work lives on through his son, Dan. See here …
Sara Levi-Tanai
… she worked as a teacher and kindergarten instructor, using music and dance to educate children and pass on Yemeni Judaism's cultural traditions. … innovative teaching materials, including original songs and music, gained significant recognition and have been used by …
Léibele Schwartz
… on March 22, 1928 as Yehudah Leib Kirzner. He began his music studies as a child with his father, Yaakov, who was a … (father) and Eduardo Bonessi , two distinguished musicians from the tango scene. He carried out his first … to be born. Léibele moved on the following year. Three more children were to be born in the United States to Cecilia and …
Sarah Harat
… grandmother's house because her mother had lost most of her children soon after giving birth. In order to protect her … henna and wedding events, [ 1 ] and in those occasions her musical skills surfaced already at a young age when she … Aviva, Ehud and Eldad. A member of her family is the musician Yigal Hared (1942-2021), a distinguished songwriter …
"Barek brik alḥama" (The lightning of our protection shone forth)
… recording features Shalom Keisar and the Kiryat Ono men and children's ensemble sing the first three stanzas of the … . While the recording was being made two men danced to the music of the shira . The dancers and singers spurred each …
Pavel Slavensky
… Yaakov Freilich in Czechoslovakia. He was one of six children of a hassid from the Belzer court. After WWII, he … … Composer … Synagogue music … Cantor … Hymns … Pavel Slavensky …