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Kamti lehallel leshem hael hanikhbad
… Lopes Cardozo has an unusually flexible rhythm, with four musical phrases in the AABC pattern, after which the refrain … ends on the first tone. This tune may have Eastern European Jewish origins. … The Western Sephardi Liturgical Tradition …
Kol beru’e ma’ala umata
… Prof. Palache was the Parnas Presidente of the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam before World War II. According … services in the Italian tradition of Padua (see: Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection , AMTI 0201, …
Tzur mishelo akhlanu
… the festive Sabbath eve meal, are a favorite location for musical creativity in most Jewish traditions. The Portuguese Jews in New York City …
Lekha dodi
… of Safed in the sixteenth century, is one of the most musically rich synagogue services. Its highlight is the … 1505-1584) that is sung to many different melodies in each Jewish community. The Western Sephardi tradition, however, … variants are documented at the different Spanish-Portuguese Jewish centers, already appears in musical notation (without …
Moshe Havusha
… traditions are based on both Syrian (“Halabi”) and Egyptian musical styles. Today, Havusha, who still lives in the Beit Israel neighborhood, is a popular hazzan , payytan , musician, and singer, with a large following across … competition held in Haifa, where he competed against both Jewish and Muslim musicians. Source: Goldstein, Riki. “A …
Isaac Levy
… Isaac Levy was born in Manisa near Izmir to a Sephardic Jewish family. At the age of three, he moved with his family … Mandatory Palestine. Levy studied at the Conservatory of Music in Jerusalem (now the Jerusalem Academy of Music and … verses and piyyutim written by poets of the golden age of Jewish culture in Spain, such as Rabbi Yehudah Halevi, Rabbi …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… There are scholars of Jewish and Israeli culture whose crucial contributions … the oral testimonies of veterans of the Yishuv (the Jewish community of Palestine prior to the establishment of … throughout Israel, in formal institutions such as the music teachers’ seminary of the Levinsky College of …
A. Irma Cohon
… In collaboration with the National Council of Jewish Women, Cohon authored Introduction to Jewish Music in Eight Illustrated Lectures , a foundational text …
Naomi Bahat-Ratzon
… community in the villages of the Golan Heights, and the Jewish communities of Yemen, to which she dedicated the majority of her work. In addition, Bahat-Ratzon is a music and dance educator. In 2012 she won the Shabazi Prize … to the research of the music and dance of the Yemenite Jewish communities in Israel. Along with Bahat they edited …
Shoshana Ben-Dor
… on Ethiopian Jewry . See: The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer … Researcher of Ethiopian Jewry … Ethnomusicologist … Ethiopia … Ethiopian Jewry … Shoshana Ben-Dor …