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Dudu Tassa
… David 'Dudu' Tassa is an Israeli rock musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer of Mizrahi … Tassa and the Kuwaitis which plays new renditions of old Iraqi and Kuwaiti songs written and composed by Tassa's late … Alison ' From Daud to Dudu: Israeli rock star makes classic Iraqi songs popular again ' . Radio France Internationale, …
Salim Shibith (Salim Ha-Cohen)
… ”) and highly regarded for his renditions of al-maqam al-‘Iraqi (the Iraqi maqam ). Like other performers, he learned the … of the maqam , wrote Na‘im Twayna in his series on Iraqi musicians in Al-Anba’ newspaper (June 30, 1978). It is …
Hisqil Qassab
… Hesqil Kassab was one of the most famous Iraqi maqam reciters in the twentieth century. He was the … in Maqam, and he was almost one of the most prominent Iraqi singers from among the Jews of Iraq. 'Hesqil Saul … biographical information See also: Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited by Esther Warkov. …
Milo Hamamah
… Well-known singer of Iraqi music in Israel. Born in Iraqi, immigrated to Israel in 1950. Learned Iraqi music in …
Abraham Salman
… the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a child in Baghdad’s school for blind Jewish … Radio Orchestra and a favored accompanist of some of Iraqi's best-known Arab singers. Salman immigrated to Israel … and he performed in a variety of genres, from the local Iraqi maqam to the cosmopolitan Egyptian-styled tarab along …
Yaqub Murad al-‘Amari (aka Yaqub Bar-Nay)
… Murad was a multi-instrumentalist employed by the Iraqi Broadcasting Ensemble in Baghdad as oud and nay player … After immigration to Israel he worked as a singer, recorded Iraqi maqamat, pastat, and “mainstream” style songs for the … occupations out of necessity. Wrote a manuscript on Iraqi music theory but was discouraged by lack of recognition for …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the recordings … and even appears, by mistake, in the song catalogue of the Iraqi-Jewish musicians, the Al-Kuweity brothers, Daud and … establishment overwhelmingly dominated by rabbis of Iraqi and Syrian origin, most notably by the late Rabbi …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… means of communication capable of surmounting estrangement. Music and music making was an area of cultural expression in which the … (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur: Qanun master, composer …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of … of change and acculturation in musical practice, and the Iraqi musicians provided an incredibly rich case study to … also laid the foundation for what became known as modern Iraqi music. Most of these musicians moved to Israel in the …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … memory turned him into a major exponent of the Iraqi Kurdish Jewish musical traditions in Israel. Professor … HOM that is dedicated to the music of the Babylonian (i.e. Iraqi/Baghdadi) Jews. Figure 4.'Bore 'ad ana,' Saloniki …