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A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… styles from the Greater Syria region. It is widespread in Baghdad too, and even appears, by mistake, in the song …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… provided an incredibly rich case study to investigate. In Baghdad, Jewish musicians had for generations served as the … status. Having been prominent, commercial entertainers in Baghdad, they were now largely confined to intra-communal … between the traditional Iraqi maqam tradition from Baghdad and what she termed ‘mainstream style’— most …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… In 1950, he studied at the renowned Midrash Beth Zilkha in Baghdad prior to his immigration to Israel in 1951. While in Baghdad, he studied violin at the Alliance School, turning … a profession, as did many other blind Jewish students in Baghdad. In Israel, Nehemiah raised an entire generation of …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… to systematically document the musical traditions of the Baghdadi Jewish community. The collection includes synagogue … readings of sacred texts, providing valuable insight into Baghdadi Jewish heritage as preserved in Jerusalem. …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… of Mediaeval Hebrew Poetry points to Iraq (especially Baghdad) and Jerusalem as the main centers of the text’s … Sami al-Shawa lived between Cairo, Jerusalem, Beirut, Baghdad and New York to record for the leading international … longed, through music, for the cities of their ancestors (Baghdad, Tunis or Thessaloniki), cities whose cultural …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… of Israel lists thirty-three manuscripts, from Germany to Baghdad, which include Kikhlot yeni . Also, the David Sasson … upizmonim , dated in the 17 th century and of probable Baghdadi origins, includes Kikhlot yeini in fol. 76a-b, … sang Kikhlot yeini , at least in Italy and perhaps even in Baghdad, on Purim. The poem also appears in later Hebrew …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… piyyut text as printed in “ Sefer ha-Shirim, ” published in Baghdad in 1906. This publication is the main source for piyyutim sung by the Jews of Baghdad. Eli Eliyahu Text Transliteration from Hebrew … [7] While the Babylonian version (which means primarily Baghdadi) appears among songs for the Sabbath, the Sephardic …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… (Kolkata), whose Jewish community traces its origins to Baghdadi Jewry. Sephardic melodies of this kind are also …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… Abraham David Hacohen (aka Ibrahim Da’ud], originally from Baghdad, and the famous violinist Felix Mizrahi, born and …
Likhvod Hatanna Haelokai (In Honor of the Holy Tanna)
… and “Va-amartem ko le-hai” composed by Rabbi Yosef Haim of Baghdad (1835-1909), known as the Ben Ish H ay, one of the …