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Yaakov Huri
… a child prodigy. By 1931, when he was only seventeen years old, he was already ordained as rabbi. Huri belonged … open a clothes’ store in the Mea Shearim quarter. Over the years, he received lucrative job offers to officiate as … those around him. His daughter Ruthie says that in the 1970s, Huri received a call from the Conservative Synagogue …
Haim Louk
… Louk's mentor. Louk would accompany him for about three years, reading Jewish philosophical texts to Buzaglo, who … traditions and acquired knowledge of Yiddish. After four years, he returned to Morocco and continued his studies at … in his performances. Louk's first album, released in the 1970s, was dedicated to Buzaglo's memory. Over the years, …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… and enthusiastic young musicians starting around the 1970s. Beginning with an archive of 78 rpm recordings, the … the headiness of this active and (now) fabled era: in forty years of analyzing the melodic lines of two clarinetists, in … Although I have valued Rubin as a colleague for over twenty years, and have never picked up a clarinet, his book gave me …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… record, a material object produced around one hundred years ago, meticulously looked after by the experts at AMAR, … another pioneer of the musical Nahda, spent over two years of his life in Aleppo (al-Hefny 1974); the Aleppian … and CDs in his small shop in Jerusalem’s Clal Center (a 1970s office tower which is home to one of the city’s oldest …
Moshe Attias
… books to memory – a dramatic turnaround from his earlier years when he could only remember parts of songs – that … was originally set to the tune of its Arab model. In the 1970s, Mwijo often performed abroad and frequently in …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… Levin for his gracious additions to the notes he wrote many years ago for the Milken Archive companion. My thanks go … the Yiddish schools and summer camps that, by the mid-1970s, were becoming “a thing of the past.” Its performance … with tears in their eyes.” As early as 1914, twenty-two years after Edlestadt died, Reyzen’s younger brother and …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… Zion. Our hope is not yet lost, The hope of two thousand years, To be a free people in our land, The land of Zion and … were published in 1937 slightly before his death and many years after they took place. Abraham Yaari later reproduced … Hatikvah and Smetana’s symphonic poem as late as the early 1970s in the legendary Israeli TV program ‘Sharti lakh …
Tvile
… the ‘Mitzvah Dance’ (‘Dance of the Precept’).” [New York, 1970s]. Seid 1975, p. 13 . “On Wednesday they bring the … never seen this myself, only heard of it happening forty years ago from old klezmers .) In the evening the... groom’s …
Sher
… We know Jewish šers that have been written down in recent years. Many of these šers are in the klezmer repertoire of … vists another dancer of the next couple...” [New York, 1970s]. Seid 1975, p. 14 . “Jewish folk dance melody ‘sher … in Bucharest... [and was originally heard] forty to fifty years earlier from klezmorim that played in Moldavia and …
Doyne (LKT)
… ‘doyne’ melody for him...” [Lag B’Omer, Meron, Israel 1960s-1970s]. Fridhaber 1978a, p. 7 . “One of the most beautiful … pp. 21-22 . ( Recording references included). “In his early years performing [this doyne ] for Brooklyn landsmanshaftn , … When I did the jobs for Dave [Tarras] about ten or eleven years ago, he used to walk right up on the little floor -- …