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33. In the Ship
… song, praised by Zacharia for its “enthusiasm and musicality,” was performed at parties during the week after a Jewish wedding. Its portrayal … a wider audience through its performance by the popular Israeli vocalist, Etty BenZaken. Though not herself Kochini, …
Rabbi David Buzaglo
… is an opportunity to revive his biography in our website. A musical and rabbinical prodigy since his early days, Rabbi … it to the schools of Casablanca and eventually to the Israeli, French, and American Moroccan Jewish diasporas. … exposure to the modern Hebrew song, a process that had started in Morocco, is his cover of “Bab el Wad,” a poem by …
Yaakov Huri
… nature of the relationship between her and her research partners. The intimate relationship between Kiwi and Yaakov … relations dominating the encounters between European ethnomusicologists and their subjects of inquiry in Israel. Our … of the ‘edot”, a nomenclature that was favored by the Israeli folkloristics and media. To cover such vast …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… study aims to trace the unique characteristics of a type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European … movement was forming in those areas of Ukraine (then part of Poland and later the Russian Empire). By the … (2015), who focuses on the “contemplative” nigunim of the Israeli Habad Hasidim, and combines musicological …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… Childhood and early musical career Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur (يوسف زعرور) was born in Baghdad in either 1902 or 1896—per Israeli immigration documents—to a family of ten children. … became an autodidact. At the age of fourteen Zaarur began participating in performances by two exclusive chalgi …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… embellish the basic and ancient core of the liturgy with particular additions and variations. Classic locations for … unique texts such as the selection of Psalm verses whose music is discussed below. The memory of the melodies and … titled Chants hebraïques suivant le rite des communautes Israelites de l’ancien Comtat Venaissin (Paris: Delanchy: …
Haim Louk
… also housed a synagogue, where a large choir operated. Participation in the choir was a compulsory aspect of the … charismatic teacher who greatly influenced Louk's musical path. At the age of 10, Louk met Rabbi David Buzaglo … , and the Piyyut Festival , collaborating with leading Israeli musicians. In 2011, he was awarded the Ministry of …
Sara Levi-Tanai
… Sara Levi-Tanai was an Israeli choreographer, playwright, and lyricist renowned for … Jewish immigrants. Her parents emigrated from Yemen as part of the wave of Jewish migration in the late 19th. … she worked as a teacher and kindergarten instructor, using music and dance to educate children and pass on Yemeni …
"Ayumah be-har hamor" (The Beloved on the mountain of myrrh)
… illustrate the way in which it has been assimilated into Israeli music over a period of generations. The hallmark of personal … altered. 13. Zadok Zubeiri sings only the first stanza: starting with a slow melody in flowing rhythm, at the Tawshiḥ …
Léibele Schwartz
… Schwartz was born in Brod, Poland, on March 22, 1928 as Yehudah Leib Kirzner. He began his music studies as a child with his father, Yaakov, who was a … Borenstein , and on the bilingual radio program La Hora Israelita (The Jewish Hour) in the Radio Porteña station. In …