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Havana Nagila: The Jews of Cuba
… Paul This documentary film reveals the history of the Cuban Jews. It discusses their origins, traditions, and place that … … Cuba … Hava Nagila … Latin America … Havana Nagila: The Jews of Cuba …
Girona, the Mother of Israel: The Jews of Catalonia
… Directed by Patricia Giniger Snyder Film about the Jews of Girona, a Catalonian city that used to be an … … Girona … Sephardi … Girona, the Mother of Israel: The Jews of Catalonia …
Flight to Freedom
… Operation Magic Carpet which brought thousands of Yemenite Jews to Israel in the late 1940s. While most of the film's …
Falashas No More
… known as Operation Moses, brought thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. This film deals with the concrete absorption … encountered once in Israel, such as racism from other Jews who did not consider their ancient rituals to be …
Edge of the West
… the different traditions and day to day life of the Jews of Morocco. The second third of the film consists …
Choose Life
… Israel. The film is intercut with scenes of persecution of Jews in an attempt to connect the war that was raging to a …
Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… 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 …
Aharon Amram
… Magic Carpet' that was designed to bring Yemenite Jews to Israel, Amram and his family immigrated to the Land … musical instruments, which was recognized among Yemenite Jews, Yemenite singing was traditionally accompanied with …
Brakha Tzefira
… in Jerusalem, where most of the residents were Sephardic Jews from Salonika. Tzefira had unpleasant memories from her … because of the hardship and humiliation they endured as Jews in Europe, and the will to take pride in their culture. … of the orient: of the land of Israel, and the 'oriental' Jews. Hirshberg writes that Tzefira acted as the ideal …
Elohim Eshala
… performance by men and children accompanies the Yemenite Jews in Sabbaths and holidays, as well as their family … going back (in the minds of romantic Orientalist European Jews) as far as the tunes of the ancient Levites of the … , a text that specifically addresses the returning of the Jews to Zion in messianic times and is set to a melody far …