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Abraham Salman
… Abraham Salman (born Shaharabani) was a qanun virtuoso, one of the finest players of … and a favored accompanist of some of Iraqi's best-known Arab singers. Salman immigrated to Israel in 1950 and was a … the local Iraqi maqam to the cosmopolitan Egyptian-styled tarab along with classical Western music repertoire arranged …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… by the singing of paraliturgical Hebrew (and at times Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic) poetry. This poetry is set to Andalusian … the congregation as a choir with the rhythmic melody of the Arab song “Ya um al-‘abaya” (يا أم العباية) that was made … is also sung to the same melody by a child soloist. This Arab song is obviously a latecomer to the Moroccan Jewish …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… With the rise of Islam and the expanding Arab conquests throughout the Middle East, North Africa and … Jews of Antiquity found themselves living in lands where Arab and Persian cultures and languages predominated. Jews … of these lands absorbed, integrated with and contributed to Arab, Persian—and later, when they came under Ottoman …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Rice and Ali Jihad Racy’s efforts to theorize Bulgarian and Arabic music performances respectively). While his framing …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… Israel in the early 1950s, part of the Jewish exodus from Arab lands, which had become largely inhospitable to Jewish … the Israeli Broadcast Authority (IBA) —supported an Arabic music orchestra on its ‘Voice of Israel in Arabic’ channel, which provided a permanent job and benefits …
Moshe Cordova
… the case of the Turkish Jews in Israel, the predominance of Arabic music styles (Middle Eastern or Maghrebi ones) in …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… language of the Kurdish Jews), Kurmanji, Hebrew and Arabic. He was a sought-after musician, faithfully …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… and stems from the adoption by Iberian Hebrew poets of the Arabic system of scansion. One of the masters of this then … is complicated. Avenary claimed that it is in the hazaj Arabic meter (u---, u---), which was adapted for widespread …
Clara Wenz
… Borders and Landscapes Lost to Conflict: My Journey with an Arab-Jewish Baidaphon Record”, Workshop Beginnings and … Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin 4-5 April 2019. “Tarab in Crisis, Samples of a New World: The Music of Hello Psychaleppo”, ICTM Study Group for the Music in the Arab World Symposium, Cairo Egypt, 7-10 January 2019. …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… stored in the shelves of the Lebanese Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research (AMAR). Located in the … and intellectual “renaissance” that characterized the Arab-Ottoman world during the nineteenth and early twentieth … centers of the region. In Aleppo, as elsewhere in the Arab world during the Nahda era, Jewish musicians played an …