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El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… we hope you enjoy this preview. The Algerian Jewish singer Gabriel Sayag recorded the piyyut El shokhen shamayim … another Andalusian Hebrew song, La’ad aromimkha malki . Crossing boundaries between Jews and Muslims, between Jews from … no such items have so far resurfaced. Sayag was a young singer of twenty-four years when he recorded for Gramophone …
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… rural and urban folklore and has developed oral traditions alongside an attachment to the written word. Its performance … a cradle, in order to prevent him from crying, should not sing him songs and melodies of the gentiles or Hebrew … are rhymes from a passage from the Bible or Talmud that he sings in order not to forget them, even though the child is …
David Menahem
… system and Arabic musical instruments. Since childhood, along with pursuing his Torah studies, he has performed with … As a musician and poet, he performs in Israel and abroad alongside many artists, such as Shlomi Shaban, Kobi Oz, … YouTube channel. (Source: Wikipedia) … Cantor, Piyyutim singer, musician, and composer … Composers … Piyyutim … Haim …
Shir hama’alot - The umbilical cord between liturgical and domestic soundspheres in Ashkenazi culture
… times of happiness and bodily pleasure. [1] The custom of singing Shir hama’alot before the mealtime Grace is … with no Ta h anun and on the Sabbath and Festivals. By using either Shir hama'alot or Al naharot Bavel as an … meals which are intended to be a getaway toward redemption. Singing Shir hama’alot to the typical melodies of the yearly …
Edward Stark
… butcher. As a young boy, Edward sang in his father’s choir along with his three older brothers. In 1871, Edward and his … including the Germania Quartet Club, an amateur singing group. He composed several operettas for the group, … eines Gesang-Vereins” (“ Germania , or the Dream of a Singing Society”). Stark studied Hebrew and hazzanut with …
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… includes folksongs in Ladino that Sephardic Jews used to sing in events of the life cycle in their communities in … them in different versions, all performed by the best folksingers, mostly women, from the Sephardic communities of …
1. Oh Lovely Parrot!
… or actors in the story. According to Ruby Daniel and other singers, these parrots allegorically represent the ancestors of the Jews who are singing the song. In both versions, the parrot or parrots … are interchangeable. … 52 … 7 … 41535 … Kochi … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs of Origin and Community Identity … …
Gershon Sirota
… attended services at all of the synagogues in the city, exposing himself to a myriad of local and original styles. … arriving in Vienna , Sirota made the acquaintance of Joseph Singer , the successor of Salomon Sulzer at the Seitenshteten Temple. Singer was greatly impressed by the young man’s talent and …

Bazetsens (LKT)
… by the badchon who, in grotesque rhymes and a peculiar singsong, exhorts the bride, reminding her of the solemnity … her parents... and the violin cries and breaks her heart... along with the klezmorim during the ‘baveynen di kale’ the … the badkhn called out names, and the klezmer would play along.” [Vilna, c. 1870s-80s]. Zizmor 1922a, p. 874 . …