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Armand Sabah
… shifting his musical focus towards Israeli singers and Hebrew songs, temporarily setting aside the Moroccan music of his … student orchestra, performing mainly pop music, including songs by the Beatles. While still a student, his father …
Jeff Klepper
… Jewish Cantor, and one of the pioneers of the singer-songwriter style that took over American synagogue music … century. He started playing the guitar in 1962 and was a song-leader in NFTY summer camps. At those camps, he started … “everything’s ok” but also “this voice is good enough” in Hebrew) and they still perform together to this day. One of …
Hisqil Qassab
… where he continued reading the Maqam and recording songs on Israeli radio, until he died in Israel in 1969.” For the full biography click here (Hebrew). Click here for the recordings of Hisqil Qassab on …
Abraham Salman
… rocker Danny Sanderson and the Kaveret Ensemble in the song 'The left-handed octopus' ('Ha-tamnun ha-iter') in the … A short excerpt of a film about Abraham Salman (in Hebrew). Saltana . A complete CD of Abraham Salman's …
Yaqub Murad al-‘Amari (aka Yaqub Bar-Nay)
… recorded Iraqi maqamat, pastat, and “mainstream” style songs for the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA), performed … recordings at National Library of Israel (catalogue in Hebrew): The National Library of Israel Warkov collection …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… not exclusively, dominated by the singing of paraliturgical Hebrew (and at times Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic) poetry. This … as a choir with the rhythmic melody of the Arab song “Ya um al-‘abaya” (يا أم العباية) that was made famous … origin Siham (or Seham) Refki (1922-2007). The song is attributed to the Syrian composer Abdel Ghani …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… in Beregovski’s Evreiskiie narodnyie pesni [Jewish Folk Songs] – the collection that Beregovski prepared for … This mode is common in prayer tunes, in the Yiddish folk song and in the old instrumental repertoire. [1] The two … notice the presence of fragments from nign 3 in the Zionist Hebrew repertoire consolidating in Palestine since the late …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… klita ), where new Jewish immigrants are housed, taught Hebrew, supported in their first steps in the host society … interpreted) symbolic value. Chapter 5 discusses song texts, highlighting the centrality of “wax and gold”—a … layers that characterize Amhara poeticism—for understanding song texts. The idiom draws on the goldsmith’s method of …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… the time the Librarian and Director of the Archive of Folk Song at the American Folklife Center of the Library of … stage, the project consisted of the full bilingual (English/Hebrew characters) computerization of the original … s containing the musical and textual transcriptions of the songs would become available in Jerusalem. That promise …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of … life, she treasured within her memory the Judeo-Spanish songs of the North Moroccan Sephardic community, playing a … During her youth, she was surrounded by the women’s songs of the Jewish community of Tetuan. Romances (ballads) …