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El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… Sayag. He appears on the record label as “cantor of the Great Synagogue of Oran,” while the name of his piano … gem by Samuel Cohen, rabbi, cantor and composer of the Great Synagogue of Wahran from the late 1930s to 1962, … the audio element. El Shokhen Shamayim, R. Samuel Cohen, Great Synagogue of Wahran (Oran), late 1950's Your browser …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… a child from Mosul to Baghdad to study Iraqi maqam from the greatest singers of his time. [1] In this context, the …
Dudu Tassa
… songs written and composed by Tassa's late grandfather and great-uncle, Daoud and Salah Al-Kuwaity. For more biography, …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… popular songs that draw heavily from folk styles from the Greater Syria region. It is widespread in Baghdad too, and … range; 2) biblical cantillation with unclear beat and great contrast between fast recitation on a narrow range and …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… people – a CD with the voice of Sholem Aleichem, the great son of the Jewish people and of the Ukrainian, and …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… to recall the songs she performed. Instead, to the great admiration of her listeners, she possessed the ability …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… following wonderful moment from Hersch’s book, in which the great stride pianist Willie “The Lion” Smith, an … art as players, composers, producers, and distributers. In great public expressions of this strange Jewish … Jews of color such as Willie “The Lion” Smith. Perhaps the greatest lesson offered by the jazz musician is in the …
Moshe Cordova
… el yotzri , a kâr in makam Hicaz. Odekha is a poem by the great late 16 th century poet/musician Rabbi Israel Najara …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… for selling like Berlin could also prosper. Berlin’s two great marketing coups in organizing army shows in the two …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… To do so, Unger needs to be backed by a figure that is “greater than life,” one that “made history”. Mahler appears …