… is an Egyptian song that was and still is popular in the Arab world, but also has connections to Jewish musical contexts and musicians. The lyrics of Hayrana Laih … Hosni composed operettas, and is recognized as the first Arab composer to write an opera in Arabic ( Samson and …

… World Congress Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Session: Musical Israeliness 5.8.09 Chair: Joel Rubin Summary: Zehava … among European Israelis as well as among Palestinians and Arabs throughout the region. In this paper, I examine Ben's … audiences at the Dead Sea and for a mixed Jewish-Arab audience in Southern France . I consider Ben's …

… 17. He played violin, sang, composed, and achieved great musical fame in Iraq together with his brother, Daoud, who … played and sang, and also through performances with the Arabic Orchestra of Kol Yisrael (Israeli Broadcasting … into a cultural ghetto, due to the lack of appreciation of Arabic music in Israeli society, and due to the huge gap …

… Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in … musician who insisted that music and affect were inseparable from ethnic nationhood. Like his other creations, … physiognomy of Jewish Orientalism and its ties to early Arab- Jewish sociopolitical and cultural encounters in …

… "Ya zen" - whose first part is based on a popular Turkish-Arab love song and "Alstein Niggun" which belongs to the … Tradition in the Land of Israel … Niggunim … Hassidim … Arab Music … Clarinet … Field recordings … Hasidic niggunim … Lag …

… composer, ‘ud player, singer, conductor, and performer of Arab art music. He was student of Tanburi Ibrahim Bey in Iraq and was … ‘Oriental’ styles in Palestine/Israel. He was active on Arabic broadcasting media in Israel and  known as a radio …

… Italy. She is a full professor of composition at the Music Department in Bar-Ilan University.  Betty Olivero is a … was awarded the  Koussevitzky Award  by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation and the Library of Congress, Washington … elements as diverse as Judeo-Spanish (sephardic) music, Arab tunes and medieval music integrated into a contemporary …

… Yosef Hadar was born in Tel Aviv in 1926 to a musical family. His mother Yafa and his father Yehiel were … Emanuel Amiran-Pugatchov brought Hadar to the College for Music Educators (Midrasha Lemichanchim Lemusica), which was then run by Prof. Leo Kestenberg and …

… as the first real concert hall in Israel. Other scenes of music in the film include Bernstein singing a Yiddish song … a former Palmach unit who would impersonate and spy on Arabs and sing around the campfire at night, and instructing …

… addition to ‘Lekhah Dodi.’ Even more important for the main musical argument of this Song of the Month (see below), the … with corrections apparently by Dato himself, includes a musical reference in its title, “Benigun anshei emunah’ i.e. … of this poem all but disappeared from the Italian Jewish musical memory. Yet, we find some vague traces of its …