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"Ahuv libi semaḥ bemitzvot nikhtevu" (My beloved, be happy)
… , mostly in Hebrew, with a small part in Arabic. This song is performed in a scrupulously traditional style that few Yemenite Jewish singers observe today: a combination of melodies, with opening and conclusion in the same melody, which is expanded at the end. Aharon Cohen …
A Selection of Judeo-Spanish Songs
… Although he was a cantor, Abraham Beniso was also a trained singer. Among his extra-synagogue performances, he recorded commercial arrangements of few songs in Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) following the practices of several of his predecessors and …
Las de la novia (Los dos bandos)
… This is a serial song, mockingly comparing the guests from the groom’s family with those from the … much better (or ‘otherwise,’ according to which side the singers belong). Those of the bride’s side eat milk …
11-13. La llamada a la morena + El vestido de la novia + La nave por partir + Las flechas del amor
… of unrelated strophes linked by a common thread and sung to the same melody. In this case, the strophes are connected by … ) or like the quince. In the third version, performed by a singer born in Turkey but raised in Sofia, most of the text … walking around I lost my (white) complexion. The king’s son is calling me; if he will call me again, I shall go with …
18 -19. Los dedos hambrientos
… variants of a children’s rhyme recited while playing with the fingers, starting with stroking the child’s palm and … The other says, ‘Through here, here...’.” At the end the singer tickles the child. … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean … 18 …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… This document, in the form of a synoptic table, incorporates three versions of … It was digitized on our behalf by Idelsohn’s great-grandson, Jonathan Misha Morgan. Jonathan has become the curator … abandoned the place and gave opportunity to another poor singer. I wanted to enter the Jewish College, but I had …
Sonic Ruins: Accessory Images for Book
… This page contains complementary resources for Sonic Ruins of Modernity: Judeo-Spanish Folksongs Today . The images are labeled as in the book (e.g. Image 2.1). … al Novia (view enlarged image) Image 4.3 Jewish wedding singers Thessaloniki postcard (view enlarged image) … …
Karel Berman
… education, Karel Berman started his career as a bass singer of opera in Opava. In March, 1943, Berman was deported to Theresienstadt, where he took part in cultural life as a … for example, he and Rafael Schächter produced the "Four songs to words of Chinese poetry " by Pavel Haas for the …
Isaac Levy
… born in Manisa near Izmir to a Sephardic Jewish family. At the age of three, he moved with his family to then Mandatory … His life's work was devoted to collect and to preserve the songs of Sephardic Jews; these songs had been passed down … national radio. His wife, Kohava Levy (born in 1946), is a singer of Sephardic songs and is a skilled interpreter of …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… There are scholars of Jewish and Israeli culture whose … about the most diverse aspects of the modern Hebrew song (aka Zemer ‘ivri or Shirei Eretz Israel ) in its … of the 21st century around the country accompanied by singer and pianist Ora Zitner (aka Sittner) . In the years …