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A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Visitors of many backgrounds came to see him, Hasidim, Yemenites, Arabs, falla h im, [3] Georgians, Sephardic … was afraid to leave us alone in his hands and so he asked a Yemenite who worked at the school to accompany us. All the … Volume , pp. 53-180. Endnotes [1] A neighborhood in central Jerusalem founded in 1905, bordered by Geula to the …
Naomi Bahat-Ratzon
… of the Golan Heights, and the Jewish communities of Yemen, to which she dedicated the majority of her work. In … contribution to the research of the music and dance of the Yemenite Jewish communities in Israel. Along with Bahat they … records focusing on songs from the Diwan of the Jews of Central Yemen. Bahat-Ratzon also published numerous articles …
"Im Nin’alu Daltei Nedivim" (Were the gates of the munificent closed)
… poem is one of the most popular and widely known among the Yemenite Jews. It is sung on many different occasions, at … … With Songs they Respond: the Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen … Brakha Tzefira … Diwan … Yemen Jewery … Yemenite Jews … Central Yemen … Jewish community of Palestine … Shalom …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… Urfa) and Iraq (Baghdad), as well as from Iran (Shiraz), Yemen and Morocco who settled in Palestine starting in the … %) are items by Jews from Baghdad (11), Shiraz (9) and Yemen (9), all three communities perceived by scholars such … expedition in Turkestan. From 1922 on he moved to Central Asia. He was the director of the Jewish …
Moshe Cordova
… cantor Refael Yair Elnadav (1921-2012). Elnadav, half Yemenite and half Sephardic, became the caretaker of … live by the Israeli Radio from the Ohel Moed synagogue, the central and modern Sephardic sanctuary in south Tel Aviv. …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… songs about Jewish cowboys (Gottlieb 2004, 64). Also Yemenite-Ashkenazi intermarriages in Israel during the 1930s … of Hebrew songs by their scale degrees in relation to a central tone, defined the tetrachord featuring a minor … (description of archival fund: 6998. 1929–1935), the “Central Jewish schools organization, Private evening …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… the second day of Rosh Hashanah, because the story plays a central role in the liturgy of the Jewish New Year festival. … confessional prayers of various communities, such as the Yemenite, Persian and Babylonian Jews. It should be added, … Biblical episode of the binding of Isaac. Our study on the central role this episode played in medieval and early …

The Musical Realization of Biblical Cantillation Symbols (te‘amîm) in the Jewish Yemenite Tradition
… This study concentrates on the Pentateuch, recited by the Yemenites in three different social and religious contexts: … synagogal services, of which the biblical recitation is a central liturgical part; (b) the traditional … of biblical texts is the basic educational instrument. The Yemenites declare that although they have a repertory of six …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… where it is variously attributed to Sephardic or even Yemenite origins, as we shall see. Kikhlot yeini text, … of these performers (except for Eliran) were of Yemenite or Central Asian background and their energetic performances, … also appears in later Hebrew manuscripts of Persian and Central Asian origin. Ms. Jerusalem, The National Library of …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… also, since at least the early eighteenth century, in the Yemenite rite during the morning services of all the Aseret … version Cantor David Tzuberi from Ramat Hasharon in central Israel reproduces in this recording a vivid … performance of Shofet kol ha’aretz in the style of central Yemen (especially the city of San’a). His rendition …