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Rabbi Hanna Tiferet Siegel
… of Eshet Hazon (woman of vision). She also studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a Melton Senior Educator … her Hasidic 'Niggunim' (Tunes); and by Debbie Friedman with her new singer-songwriter Jewish music style. Her compositions promote …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… النخل) “Fog al-Nakhal,” is nowadays one of the most popular songs in the Middle East. It is a muwwashshah, “girdle” … a long improvisatory piece consisting of several sections without clear beat. The easily recognizable pasté often … family from Bombay who sang this melody to the religious Hebrew text, “Ki eshmerah Shabbat,” a song intended for the …
Nitzan Hen Razael
… in Jerusalem and then in the high school adjacent to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In the IDF, Razael served as … plays a variety of genres. His style combines folk-rock with world music from both the East and the West, as well as … by their eclectic character, and include Israeli song and piyyut alongside klezmer pieces, stories, and …
Armand Sabah
… in 1952 in Marrakesh, Morocco, and immigrated to Israel with his family at age ten. His father came from a musical … shifting his musical focus towards Israeli singers and Hebrew songs, temporarily setting aside the Moroccan music of his …
Jeff Klepper
… Jewish Cantor, and one of the pioneers of the singer-songwriter style that took over American synagogue music … in 1980 in the HUC campus in New York. He cooperated with a lot of Jewish musicians; His best-known cooperation … “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 Esther Warkov’s YouTube channel with biographical information See also: Jewish …
Abraham Salman
… maqam to the cosmopolitan Egyptian-styled tarab along with classical Western music repertoire arranged for qanun. … 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 … at minute 45:50, recorded in 1969. [This recording begins with Warkov’s interview of Ezra Aharon in 1981]. Al-‘Amari …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… not exclusively, dominated by the singing of paraliturgical Hebrew (and at times Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic) poetry. This … on a single recitation tone to clear-cut florid melodies with fixed meter with various permutations of melodic and … as a choir with the rhythmic melody of the Arab song “Ya um al-‘abaya” (يا أم العباية) that was made famous …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… Evreiskie narodnye napevy bez slov [ Jewish Tunes without Words , 1946]: This research was supported by a … 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 …