THE MUSIC OF THE ETHIOPIAN JEWS, THE BETA ISRAEL (7 min of reading)
The massive illegal immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel began at the turn of the 1980s. Within the space of three decades, more than 90,000 Beta Israel and Falash Mura settled in the Hebrew state, where they integrated the ranks of normalized Judaism, abandoning their ancestral ritual practices…
THE LITURGICAL SINGING OF THE ETHIOPIAN JEWS: AN ISRAELI DESTINY
This lecture by Simha Arom and Olivier Tourny gives us the keys to understanding what has happened to the singing of the Ethiopian Jewish community since its settlement in Israel…
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SIMHA AROM (1930) (7 min of reading)
Born in Germany, but a refugee in Palestine after the war, Simha Arom is an internationally renowned musician and ethnomusicologist, specializing in traditional music, particularly from Central Africa. He has also recorded the music of Ethiopian Jews on their arrival in Israel…
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THE MUSICAL TRADITIONS OF THE ETHIOPIAN JEWS (7 min of music)
SHABBAT SONGS IN THE ETHIOPIAN RITE (17 min of music)
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THE ETHIOPIAN JEWISH LITURGICAL SONGS, Guest: Olivier Tourny (50 min program in French)
SIMHA AROM – FROM DÜSSELDORF TO JERUSALEM, FROM CENTRAL AFRICAN MUSIC TO THOSE OF ETHIOPIAN JEWS, Guest: Simha Arom (50 min program in French)
LE CHANT LITURGIQUE JUIF ÉTHIOPIEN – ANALYSE MUSICALE D’UNE TRADITION ORALE, by Olivier Tourny
Cet ouvrage de Olivier Tourny, ethnomusicologue au CNRS, ancien directeur du Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem, décrit de manière pédagogique l’étonnante tradition musicale des Juifs d’Éthiopie…
MUSIQUES LITURGIQUES JUIVES, PARCOURS ET ESCALES, by Hervé Roten
This book-disc retraces the history of Jewish music through time and space, with a particular focus on the ancient Marrano communities of south-west France, the extraordinary musical heritage of the Jews of Djerba and the astonishing liturgy of Ethiopian Jews…
THE LITURGY OF BETA ISRAEL – MUSIC OF THE ETHIOPIAN JEWISH PRAYER
This 3-CD reference anthology was published in 2018 by the Jewish Music Research Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The booklet, written by leading specialists (Simha Arom, Frank Alvarez-Pereyre, Shoshana Ben-Dor and Olivier Tourny), provides a historical, liturgical and musicological analysis of the music of the Beta Israel…
Jewish Music Research Centre. Ethiopian Jews in Israel – a Musical Ethnography
This article, written by Nili Belkind and accompanied by audio and video recordings, offers a study of Ethiopian Jewish music and its evolution within Israeli society
Other online contents
Discover all our articles about the Ethiopian Jews’ music…