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Nitzan Hen Razael
… in Jerusalem and then in the high school adjacent to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In the IDF, Razael served as … by their eclectic character, and include Israeli song and piyyut alongside klezmer pieces, stories, and …
Armand Sabah
… shifting his musical focus towards Israeli singers and Hebrew songs, temporarily setting aside the Moroccan music of his … Himmelfarb High School in Jerusalem, Sabah enrolled at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, pursuing a B.A. in sociology …
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 … from Gaon’s repertoire, “Morenica” (“Sheḥarḥoret” in its Hebrew version also by Gaon), in Moroccan synagogues in …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… in Beregovski’s Evreiskiie narodnyie pesni [Jewish Folk Songs] – the collection that Beregovski prepared for … notice the presence of fragments from nign 3 in the Zionist Hebrew repertoire consolidating in Palestine since the late … As Mazor has shown in his groundbreaking study, this new Hebrew repertoire, usually known as Shirei Eretz Israel …
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 … community (the priests— qessotch in Amharic, qessim in the Hebrew adaptation), in effect dismantling the qessim ’s … interpreted) symbolic value. Chapter 5 discusses song texts, highlighting the centrality of “wax and gold”—a …
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 … Aleph cataloging system and in the Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew languages, engaged in this project from 1996 to 1999. …