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‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… remained in manuscripts (except for a few songs, as will be shown below). Many of Dato's works are poems, and our Song … into one of them, ‘Le-El ‘Olam’. A number of Dato’s poems show his engagement with the increasing popularity among his …
Nahum Heiman
… the army who could play. Their recruit was for a specific show which Havatzelet produced. Heiman received from … Israeli singing repertoire. In 1977 Heiman recorded a radio show which became a record that consisted of his new … Yonatan and Natan Alterman. Among the songs included in the show were Hahol Yizkor and Zemer Lebni , which were later …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… of Syrian-American composer’s exposure to Ghazali on a TV show that aired in Damascus in 1966. Publishing Date …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… music of this famous Purim song are multiple; studying them shows the complex process through which modern favorites in … new text (based as we pointed out on traditional formulae) shows that the folk tradition in Yiddish lacked family songs …
Niña llena de brillos (Ah ninia Jena di brillos, Ah ninia lüna di brilles)
This song is an example of how a Ladino folksong was created in a short period. Based on…

Hora (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… Mizrahi, helped him to escape from Eretz Israel on a cargo boat exporting oranges to Malta . The small Jewish community …

Ashkenazic and Italian Liturgy
… recordings from other Italian communities. My analysis shows that the Italian minhag represents an independent …

Jewish Identities and Ideologies in Music
Jewish Identities and Ideologies in Music
Chair: Boaz Tarsi
Ruth Davis,…
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… The following analysis of a weekly evening prayer shows some analytical parameters designed to interpret the … My long-term fieldwork experience in Moroccan synagogues shows that this service is a clear instance of an extremely … two centuries ago. Finally, the analysis of the service shows that there is an “economy of liturgical time” in this …