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Haim Effendi
… Maftirim used to perform its ancient repertoire of Ottoman Hebrew music on Sabbath mornings and afternoons at the … four languages: Judeo-Spanish; Turkish; Arabic; and modern Hebrew, along with his command of the religious Hebrew … or suicide), or he agrees but chooses to play a Jewish melody from the holiday repertoire. His exceptionally moving …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… Empire. The scholars of Adrianpole excelled especially in Hebrew poetry and in music, two fields in which Isaac … Istanbul, took concern that his son will grow up with the Hebrew language. He studied at the school, 'Kol Yisrael … involved both writing his own poems with or without a melody and editing and translating poems of others. Navon …
Joseph Papernikoff
… of the Yiddish Writers' Association and a member of the Hebrew branch of the International Writers' Organization. In … Build My Castles in the Air'), to which he also composed a melody, became a popular folk song. Many of his poems have been translated into Hebrew, among others by Yaakov Fichman, Natan Alterman, …
Yehiel 'Adaki
… as an embroiderer. As a child, 'Adaki studied Torah and Hebrew. When he was nine, his father died, and his mother … wa ya rabb-ljalali', which is part in Arabic and part in Hebrew (…) They had nice voices. After three verses of the … to sing the piyyut Sha'ar Asher Nisgar in a Sephardic melody and a Yemenite accent. It made me laugh, and I asked …
Israel Alter
… South Africa, where he served as the cantor of the United Hebrew Congregation until his retirement in 1960. He … and joined the faculty of the School of Sacred Music at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, where he … and melodic motifs like intertextual references (where a melody in a specific word is borrowed from another prayer, …
Avner Bahat
… the Department of Musicology at Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew University, the Oranim Seminary, the College of Music … Naomi in a study about the diwan of Yemenite Jews - piyyut-melody-dance. They conducted fieldwork that included … (' The music in my life'). For the full autobiography in Hebrew see here ) See also: Avner Bahat's official website …