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A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… in detail, betraying respectively a distinct German or Arab influence, with a corresponding modification of …
Nahum Heiman
Natan Yonatan, Nahum Heiman's friend and writing partner says about his friend (in the…
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… A few years ago, I heard the song ‘Ehad mi yode’a’ in the Arabic language with the same tune. The person who performed … to Israel, that the tune he knew was similar to a Judeo-Arabic version he heard from a colleague of his in the … agrees that the tune he sings bears Mizrahi (Oriental) or Arabic elements. Unlike few other Aramaic versions available …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… are indicated as “Yemenite” in origin and one is called “Arabian Love Song.” This songbook was the very first of its … that Binder may indeed have correctly identified an Arabic background melody to this song (though not … songs, such as the baladi songs of Syrian and Palestinian Arabs, where the minor mode sounds more like the Maqam …
Léibele Schwartz
Schwartz was born in Brod, Poland, on March 22, 1928 as Yehudah Leib Kirzner. He began…
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… example 1). A renowned singer, Kremer was born in Belz, Bessarabia, and sang on Italian and Russian opera stages. At the …
Pnina Salzman
“The first lady of the piano in Israel,' and, 'She is considered the first Israel-born…
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
Isaac Eliyahu Navon was born in Adrianpole (today Edirne) on May 17, 1859. His father,…
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 …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… Meir Sulam and members of the Jewish community of Ghardaïa (Arabic: غرداية, in the Sahara in north central Algeria), was …