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From Destruction to Rebuilding in the Iberian Peninsula
… through a study of three musical examples from the community repertoire and the comparison of these examples … circumstances which led to the establishment of a Jewish settlement at the tip of the Iberian Peninsula just … seven decades and is the most recognized voice of the Jewish Gibraltarian liturgical singing tradition. The main …
Qinot Performed by Hazzan Abraham Beniso
… in Gibraltar showcase the liturgical repertoire of a Jewish settlement situated on the edge of the Iberian … expulsion of Jews from Spain and Portugal. This distinctive community thrived, acting as a bridge between the traditions …
Abraham Beniso
… he was invited to appear in concerts and public events (Jewish and non-Jewish) on a worldwide scale. His travels took him to … ceremonies, and serving the communal needs of the Jewish community in Gibraltar. His son and grandsons continue to …
Jews in Gibraltar and the music of their synagogues
… his sons allows us to explore one of the most challenging Jewish music traditions. Although a Jewish presence in Gibraltar is documented since at least … attribution ) Six hundred Jews comprising a “multicultural” community mixing North African with Western Sephardic …
James Levy
… Congregación Israelita Latina of Buenos Aires in 1891 ( The Jewish Presence in Latin America ). He also composed … 40946 … Recorder of the musical tradition of the Gibraltar community … Ladino, Judeo-Spanish – Ladino, Ladino - …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one … the special favor of the Duke who allowed her, as the only Jewish pupil, to visit his German primary school. All her … a school for cantors. He gave me a place in a Bavarian community. Brainin approved my action in becoming untrue to …
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. …
Berukhim atem qehal emmunai
… eliyahu (the chair of Elijah). This poem is known in most Jewish communities around the Mediterranean. Its text by an … of Saloniki, one of the first cantors of the Portuguese community in Amsterdam. It is most likely that this and many … Eastern Mediterranean were transmitted to the Portuguese community in Amsterdam by this hazzan and poet. This is an …
Miyom qadmon
… the study of sacred texts that characterized the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam. The poem was composed by Moshe de … of songs performed at the gatherings of the diverse Jewish confraternities in Amsterdam. This specific song was …
Kol beru’e ma’ala umata
… Prof. Palache was the Parnas Presidente of the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam before World War II. According to … services in the Italian tradition of Padua (see: Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection , …