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Almonds and Raisins
… Directed by Russ Karel Yiddish talking cinema burst into the film scene after the release of the first talkie, The Jazz Singer in 1927. Over the next 13 years more than 300 films … In Almonds and Raisins (named after a popular Yiddish song), director Russ Karel and narrator Orson Welles, scan …
Tipat Mazal (A Bit of Luck)
… Ze'ev Ravach. It is about Zuzu, a popular Jewish Moroccan singer and the hardships that he and his daughter Vivi entail when they … Ben, who plays the grown up Vivi, each sing a variety of songs during the course of the film. Revach sings in both …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… Violins, Voice and Jews In the spring of 1897, on the eve of the Russian Orthodox … ensembles One of the outstanding forms of the group was the song for voice, piano and either violin or viola. The … song is quite beautiful, with the violin accompanying the singer in a low register (did he really intend viola in this …
Responsorial Singing
… is a singing performance style in which a solo singer (leader) and a group of singers (congregation, choir) sing alternately, in response to each other. It is one of the oldest musical forms and common to … Israel, for example, the refrain led by Miriam during the Song of the Sea (Exodus 15:21) or the short responses of …
With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen
… The Jews of Yemen possess rich musical traditions, which … characteristic of the diwan repertoire. Some of the songs are heard in a series of different performances, in … basic characteristics of the music of the diwan songs. Each singer chose the stanzas that he wanted to sing, as well as …
Hayrana Laih
… Score … Hayrana Laih is an Egyptian song that was and still is popular in the Arab world, but also has connections to Jewish musical … Karaite Jewish origins composed it in 1932 for the Egyptian singer of Jewish extraction, Leila (or Layla) Mourad …
Yechidi Laderech Li Etse'a
… 726 … 'Alone I set out on the road,' wrote Lermontov, the great Russian poet, in 1841. … odin ja na dorogu' (Alone I set out on the road). The song travelled all the way from Russia to Israel during the … it), the Hebrew version is not known at all. Aryeh Uri, the singer in the recording attached below, has never heard this …
Bin Tavinu Liqnot Bina Ha'azinu
… and worked in Damascus, Safed, and Gaza. He was one of the greatest Hebrew poets in the period after the expulsion … of writing new piyyutim according to models of existing songs, and turned it into a method. As a result, he also … songs all across the Mediterranean Jewish world, the local singers, unable to figure out what was the melody that …
Ner Haviv, Ner Na'eh
… at a Hanukkah celebration, Jerusalem 2001 Transcription of the song … 57 … 738 … Jerusalem … This song of the month was … In 1953, Abraham Abuganim (1908-2002), a Sephardic cantor, singer and 'ud player from Jerusalem, composed a Hanukkah …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… printed in Sephardi prayer books as reshut to Qaddish in the Yom Kippur Minhah service or as a pizmon for singing … Effendi of Turkey In spite of his unparalleled fame as a singer and musician during his lifetime, very few details … But Haim was not a full-time cantor who recorded some songs in Ladino. He moved into what we may today call the …