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Dudu Tassa
… David 'Dudu' Tassa is an Israeli rock musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer of Mizrahi … had a successful solo career in Israel, Tassa has been the leader of the internationally acclaimed band Dudu Tassa …
Jeff Klepper
… Jeff Klepper is an American Jewish Cantor, and one of the pioneers of the singer-songwriter style that took over American synagogue music …
Salim Shibith (Salim Ha-Cohen)
… highly regarded for his renditions of al-maqam al-‘Iraqi (the Iraqi maqam ). Like other performers, he learned the tradition while listening to … Nuri Sa‘id, according to Na‘im Twayna. Like most maqam singers, Shibith also worked in a second profession; he …
Hisqil Qassab
… Hesqil Kassab was one of the most famous Iraqi maqam reciters in the twentieth … in Maqam, and he was almost one of the most prominent Iraqi singers from among the Jews of Iraq. 'Hesqil Saul Qassab … where he continued reading the Maqam and recording songs on Israeli radio, until he died in Israel in 1969.” …
Milo Hamamah
… Well-known singer of Iraqi music in Israel. Born in Iraqi, immigrated … motivated by ethnic pride. Occasionally attempted to sing the Iraqi maqam. See: Jewish Professional Musicians in … ' ' Midalal ' Milo on Iraqi TV 'Ya Yoma ' 'Bilaluf' Old songs Iraqi music Sources by Esther Warkov. … Iraq … …
Abraham Salman
… Salman (born Shaharabani) was a qanun virtuoso, one of the finest players of this instrument in the Middle East. … a favored accompanist of some of Iraqi's best-known Arab singers. Salman immigrated to Israel in 1950 and was a … collaboration with the Israeli rocker Danny Sanderson and the Kaveret Ensemble in the song 'The left-handed …
Yaqub Murad al-‘Amari (aka Yaqub Bar-Nay)
… Murad was a multi-instrumentalist employed by the Iraqi Broadcasting Ensemble in Baghdad as oud and nay … of the 1950s. After immigration to Israel he worked as a singer, recorded Iraqi maqamat, pastat, and “mainstream” style songs for the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA), performed …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… This is a short extract of the article “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan … paraliturgical piyyut, liturgical repertoires mark sonic difference between Jews and Muslims in Morocco. They … that was made famous in a Cairophone 78rpm recording by the singer and movie actress of Syrian-Lebanese origin Siham (or …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of Moroccan Jewish folk singer Alicia (Benassayag) Bendayan on Friday, June 11, … life, she treasured within her memory the Judeo-Spanish songs of the North Moroccan Sephardic community, playing a …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… first stop for those wishing to have some understanding of the complicated subject. Indeed, nearly everything about the … chapter about the African-American appropriation of Jewish songs and themes, as though Smith had not been a Jew. If not … Jewish self-exclusion (such as the famous plot of The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson of 1927) white Jews told themselves …