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Rabbi David Buzaglo
… is one of their most iconic twentieth-century Moroccan Jews. The publication of an extensive new essay, [1] the … overtures from the Andalusian repertoire—but also for Egyptian pieces, such as “Fantasia Nahawand,” by Mohammed … Al warda al badiya which introduced the waltz to modern Egyptian music. For unknown reasons, Rabbi Buzaglo wrote two …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… a family of ten children. As with most Baghdadi Jews, Zaarur attended synagogue services and traditional … the concluding pastat. He also listened to early commercial Egyptian recordings, among them those by the El-Akkad … of many Baghdadi musicians to the aesthetics of modern Egyptian music. By this time the qanun had become a leading …
Shir agid
… al-Khdawi” (Peace upon the Ruler). The melody of this Egyptian anthem was extremely popular among Levantine Jews. It was adapted to other pizmonim, such as “Ro’e …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… issues emerged during early fieldwork among Moroccan Jews in Israel, it was always a peripheral topic, and mostly … liturgical repertoires mark sonic difference between Jews and Muslims in Morocco. They comprise an intimate space … repertoire through a para-liturgical piyyut, after its Egyptian commercial recording. Your browser does not support …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… in the sixteenth century that continues amongst Syrian Jews today (Kligman 2009; Shelemay 1998). “ Yom Yom Odeh ” … recorded with Baidaphon (others included, for example, the Egyptian vocalist and composer Zaki Mourad [9] , his brother … and shape a “classical”, transregional (albeit heavily Egyptian-influenced) musical aesthetic, which can be …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… persistence of the song in the memory of Eastern European Jews but also of the resilience of Yiddish culture during … became a Hebrew song of Zionist overtones performed on Egyptian land occupied at that time by the national Jewish … of pyramids, There was a king, wicked and evil; There all Jews were His servants, his slaves. Precious children …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… Sea of Reeds the son of Amram [Moses] dried And made the Egyptian Nile stink. Who was this man Moses who Drew water … below, attesting that it was known among the Baghdadi Jews until the last generation of immigrants to Israel in …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… musical tradition of communities that descended from Jews expelled from Spain who lived in various geographic … Syrian and Eastern Jewish communities, who adopted the new Egyptian arrangements into their piyyut tradition. Like … from the 1930s to the 1950s, Arabic music (especially Egyptian singers), was listened to and absorbed in private …
Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… noted. One example is the use of these musical systems. The Egyptian Karaites kept the Eastern melodic systems and … HaḲaraim BeYisrael, 1979-1981. --------- The Karaite Jews in Eastern Europe . Ramleh: Mahon Tiferet Yosef, 2001. … notes. … 692 … 9518 … Karaite … Eliahu Adelman … Karaite Jews Musical Tradition … Rachel Kollender …
Brakha Tzefira
… in Jerusalem, where most of the residents were Sephardic Jews from Salonika. Tzefira had unpleasant memories from her … (d. 1989). The duo kept expanding their repertoire, adding Egyptian songs (after their return from Egypt in 1932), … in Germany. A special event on the tour was the visit of Egyptian poet Dr. Ahmad Zaki at one of her shows in New …