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A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… that was made famous in a Cairophone 78rpm recording by the singer and movie actress of Syrian-Lebanese origin Siham (or … The song was made famous by its recording by the popular singer Yehoram Gaon, whose family is of Eastern Sephardi …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… of Jerusalem mourns the passing of Moroccan Jewish folk singer Alicia (Benassayag) Bendayan on Friday, June 11, … beginning in the early 1980’s, noted that Alicia was a rare singer from her region due to the fact that she did not rely … this latter period. Alicia’s reputation as an excellent singer of Judeo-Spanish song once again led scholars and …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… Jewish self-exclusion (such as the famous plot of The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson of 1927) white Jews told themselves …
Moshe Cordova
… Moshe Cordova Composer, singer, ‘ud and piano player Moshe Cordova (b. Edirne, … the capital city, Cordova pursued his career as a synagogue singer and composer. Parallel to his musical career he … During its heyday in the early twentieth century, Jewish singers from various quarters of Istanbul, as well as from …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… popular modern Ladino songs, “Pesah a la mano,” authored by singer, accordionist, composer and teacher Flory Jagoda … without the author’s attribution. The Catalonian singer Rosa Zaragoza recorded the song as “traditional among … ranged from the New England Conservatory in Boston to a singer in from Venezuela , The latter version was released …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… a studio ensemble comprising the most popular Sephardic singers of Salonica. It was still mentioned in an article in … Archive includes another recording of the song, this one by singer Elie Cohen. He recorded a slightly shorter version of …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… field work alone contained 120 songs performed by Jewish singers (p. xxiv), but most of them were not included in the … for the first measure. However, it may be argued that the singer simply did not remember the melody well (as s/he did …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… trademark sign, the gazelle, and the name of the singer and the song written in Arabic, Hebrew and English. … and the Hebrew, as well as the English inscriptions of the singer’s name read Raf oul Tabba ch , instead of Raphael … about the famous record’s origins—both the song and its singer—I played the copy on my phone to a variety of people …
Moshe Attias
… Although presented in the Hebrew press as a payytan (singer of religious poetry), Cheikh Mwijo rarely recorded … recording of “ Ki Eshmera Shabbat ”) nor was he a renowned singer of bakkashot in the Moroccan Andalusian style. On the … from the 1990s, generated diverse and emotional reactions. Singer and composer Kobi Oz claimed, in defense of Mwijo, …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… is preserved at the Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive. The singer is identified in the tape’s box as “Lerer” Zakhar. … was commercially recorded in the 1960s by the noted Jewish singer Sidor Belarsky (1898-1975) on the LP Seder Nights …