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Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… from the early twentieth century, that production became a landmark in the revised appreciation of Sephardic music …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… Seder night. My father learned it in his childhood in Poland. I do not know from whom he heard it. The text and the … the origin of the tune and how it made its way to Poland.” As with many queries of this kind that arrive to my … Buenos Aires), scion to a family from Stawiski (northeast Poland, near Bialystok), refers in this excerpt to his …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… earliest recordings of Shirei Eretz Yisrael (Songs of the Land of Israel). Lurie’s informants differ, as far as we can …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… southern Israel where he recorded new immigrants from the Island of Djerba (Tunisia), a community that became a focus of … of different Christian musical traditions of the Holy Land. Another special interest for Herzog was the Ashkenazi …
Moshe "Musa" Berlin
… in Yaakov Mazor’s book: The Klezmer Tradition in the Land of Israel Interviews, conversations, lectures, and some …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… of Israel to look eastward to “strengthen the desired land of [their] fathers” in supplication to God for … ). The text focuses on a return from exile to the Promised Land, with the final stanza claiming, “The sons of the …
Moshe Preis
… Chazzan Moshe Preis was born in Lodz, Poland on May 15, 1914. His father, Shlomo Aryeh Preis, died … increasingly fascist Hungary, Chazan Preis traveled to England, to officiate at the wedding of one of his congregant's … family, his mother, step-father, and step-siblings in Poland and father-in-law in Hungary were all murdered in the …
Jeff Klepper
… His best-known cooperation was with Rabbie Dan Freelander. Together they founded the famous musical duo named … and interview with composers Jeff Klepper and Dan Freelander (video). The interview discusses the composing …
Pete Sokolow
… & Kapelye: Klezmer educators . (Published at Long Island Traditions website: January 3, 2001) Judah M. Cohen. …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… piece throughout the vast Jewish settlement in Ukraine, Poland and Russia. Thus, recent ethnographic work among … from the USA, who became the Rebbe of Ruzla (Rozdol, Poland) Court further clarifies alternative routes of … usually known as Shirei Eretz Israel (Songs of the Land of Israel) or Zemer ‘Ivri (“Hebrew song”), is saturated …