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Abraham Goldfaden
… father took advantage of a new law mandating that Jewish students attending public school would be except from … he began publishing a satirical journal, Yisrolec for the Jewish community living there. The journal was in circulation for …
Nahum Nardi
… his uncle Dudu 'Noyhem,' who was the court rabbi of the community. He began his piano studies at age seven, further … on tour in Europe. During that tour, while visiting the Jewish Community center in Berlin, Nardi met the Yemenite … Na'ama (1931-1989), and they began a joint concert tour of Jewish communities in Poland, Germany, Latvia, Belgium, …
Sarah Harat
… scholarly education, an unusual feature for young Yemenite Jewish girls at the time. Sarah was exposed to the traditional poetry of the Yemeni Jewish women and to the sacred poetry, the Diwan, performed by the men of her community. Her grandfather, Yosef Yitzhak Halevi, enriched …
In Ale Gasn\ Hey Hey Daloy Politsey
… month is a Yiddish song about the political struggles of Jewish socialists, communists, and even anarchists, in … for a documentary movie called Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists (1980). He recorded the song again for the … In Love and in Struggle, released by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in 1999, from which the recording attached …
Efraim Yaakov
… origin. He did much to preserve the heritage of the community of Hogeriya, documenting, recording, and … not only for research doing but also for actions within his community. This is how he rotated between synagogues in …
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… בן-נאה, ירון 2008 Jews in the realm of the Sultans: Ottoman Jewish society in the seventeenth century . Tübingen: Mohr … רודריג 2000 Sephardi Jewry: a history of the Judeo-Spanish community, 14th-20th centuries . Berkeley: University of … Taurus. Goldberg, Harvey E. | 'גולדברג, הארוי א 2003 Jewish passages: cycles of Jewish life . Berkeley: …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … and saints, or Leidensgeschichte and Geistesgeschichte . Jewish Studies in this formulation consisted of the … in the institutionalization of the music life in the Jewish community of late Ottoman Palestine (Hirschberg 1995, ch. …
Kaddish
… is one of the most important and central parts of the Jewish liturgy. Most of it is in Aramaic, and it is used as … in research: In February 2007, an important 18 th century Jewish musical score has been discovered, which include … to other musical resources of the Amsterdam Portuguese community, which were researched meticulously by Israel …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… The Jewish liturgy was never a sealed and unified corpus. Its … on the pulpit to conduct the prayer on behalf of the community led since antiquity to the development of a … tunes differ to a great extent from those of all other Jewish communities. They contain elements of original Jewish …