… Piyutim, others were adopted from secular Jewish songs, as well as from non-Jewish sources.  Some of these … inventions of the priests. In similarity with folk songs in general, while some were uniquely beautiful with … structures, others were nothing more than hackneyed songs. Thanks to the creativity of the H assidim, the …

… Folkways release by the Israeli singer Geula Gill “Yemenite songs and other Israeli folk songs.” Gill (b. 1932 in Tel Aviv as Geula Levavi from a … performance in this track. Moreover, the track includes two songs, the first one being Elohim Eshala with only the …

Arvit is the last of the three daily services of the Jewish liturgy, along with Shaharit…

… and Mr. M. S. Gashuri a big collection of about 50 of these songs and melodies, transcribed in printed musical notation. … in Tel Aviv. The lonely old man continued writing poems and songs and used to send them to his friends and colleagues, … friend Yitzhak Levi, who published the songbook Yona Homia- songs of Yitzhak Eliyahu Navon in 1950, at the Cultural …

… their diasporic communities Sephardim sang a repertoire of songs in Ladino, belonging to different genres such as  … sources as well. The performed repertoire of Ladino songs was maintained mostly by oral transmission, primarily … elements of flamenco into new arrangements of Sephardic songs.  Two musicians who fuse these two genres are the …

… by maintaining some old practices – such as traditional songs – while instituting new ones; in other words, by …

… The collection includes synagogue liturgy, life cycle songs, domestic rituals, and readings of sacred texts, …