Re: Bat mitzvah on Curacao

[Joel Bresler <jbresler...>]

Way cool site! Thanks for pointing us to it. Frustrating that they don't 
list song titles, and that many of the recordings listed are not 
commercially available.

My comments interspersed.

J

At 11:02 PM 10/13/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Joel,
>
>Thanks for sharing that with us. I found the Roten booklet/CD at
>http://www.alapage.com/
>
>I also found the following list of CDs searching for "juive".  Would
>you (or any other list member) recommend any of the less familiar
>titles?
>
>Bob
>
>1 - Sun juive de NATURAL FLAVORS
>2 - Al ekhali (Chants de la nation juive de Livourne) de BEDARIDA,
>DANIELE

Livornese liturgical music. Also, the Livornese community offers one other 
CD, available directly.

>3 - Klezmagic : La magie des musiques traditionelles juives de KLEZMER
>4 - Traditions liturgiques des communautés juives de ISRAEL
>5 - Traditions liturgiques des communautés juives de ISRAEL
>6 - Shpil Es Nokl A Mol (Musique juive d'Europe centrale) de SHPIL ES
>NOKL A MOL, GROUPE
>7 - Sur la route... (Trésor des musiques juives) (12 titres) de
>SAMOUN, MARLENE

Folk song style arrangements. Sephardic titles:

Daï de Senar    Nani, nani      Morenica        Scalerica de oro        A 
la nana       HaMavdil

>8 - Musiques juives en ballade (Enregistré en public) de ADAMA

Hi octane klezmer music, mostly. Sephardic titles: Yo m?enamori Serena

>9 - Jewish israeli holiday (Chansons de fêtes juives) de ISRAEL
>10 - Les voix de Copernic (Chants sacrés de la liturgie juive) de
>PEUPLE JUIF
>11 - The yiddish dream (Héritage de la chanson juive) de PEARCE,
>JUDITH , DEVRATH, NETANIA , BERNARDI, HERSCHEL

Widely available in the US

>12 - Chansons traditionnelles juives de ENGEL, HELENE
>13 - Liturgie juive traditionnelle (Chants de mariages) de LIN, MARCEL
>, HEYMANN, MICHEL , COLOMBO, PATRICK
>14 - The yiddish dream (Héritage de la chanson juive) de PEARCE,
>JUDITH , DEVRATH, NETANIA , BERNARDI, HERSCHEL

See 11 above

>15 - Musiques juives de SIVANN, SYLVIE

Enjoyable folk song arrangements. Sephardic titles: Como la rosa en la 
guerta   Un iho tyene el rey David       Durme, durme    Noches, noches

>16 - Musiques juives / vol.1 (Traditions liturgiques) de ANTHOLOGIE
>17 - Yehudi (L'Orient imaginaire - Musique juive du sérail) de
>IVANOFF, VLADIMIR

Jewish Classical Ottoman Turkish music. Widely available in the US.

>18 - Musique juive pour les réjouissances de LEHRER, MURRAY
>19 - La vie des communautés juives (Moments forts des concerts..) de
>SAN, BERNHARD , HIRSH, NAOMI , LAUG, MARCEL
>20 - Musiques juives traditionnelles (20 titres) de ANTHOLOGIE
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joel Bresler <jbresler (at) ma(dot)ultranet(dot)com>
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Date: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 5:42 PM
>Subject: Bat mitzvah on Curacao
>
>
>Chevre,
>
>Interesting message from a rabbi on Curacao about preparing a young
>woman
>for her Bat Mitzvah in the Spanish and Portuguese tradition. There is
>one
>recording that I know of specifically dealing with Curacao:
>
>Swerling, Cantor Norman P.
>Romemu - Exalt!
>National Multimedia Services
>NMS20477
>
>(I found it at Tara, but perhaps Simon and others have it.) And there
>are a
>number of recordings of artists and choirs associated with the Spanish
>and  Portuguese tradition from Shearith Israel in NYC and Bevis Marks
>in
>London. Last, there is a fascinating CD/Booklet on Jewish Liturgical
>music
>that includes selections from the Portuguese community in the south of
>France:
>
>Roten, Hervé    E
>Musiques Liturgiques Juives
>Cité de la musique/Actes Sud
>ISBN: 2-7427-1480-4
>
>(I don't think it's available in the US...)
>
>Best,
>
>Joel
>
>
> >X-Sender: mtayvah (at) popmail(dot)cura(dot)net
> >Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 10:49:16 -0400
> >To: jbresler (at) ma(dot)ultranet(dot)com
> >From: Michael Tayvah <mtayvah (at) cura(dot)net>
> >Subject: Take part in an historic event!
> >
> >Dear friends:
> >
> >On of my privileges here on Curacao has been teaching a young woman
>for her
> >Bat Mitzvah celebration. She will be 14 in December, but waited until
>now
> >to study because they had no rabbi for nearly two years, and because
>her
> >congregation is still not fully egalitarian. Her name is Erin
>Blanken.
> >
> >What is so historic about a 14 year old celebrating a Bat mitzvah?
> >
> >Her family on her mother's side has been on Curacao for 12
>generations.
> >Before her family settled on Amsterdam they were from the Sephardic
>Jews
> >who fled west to Portugal where in the early sixteenth century were
>forced
> >to convert to Catholicism. They somehow managed to preserve their
> >Jewishness during four generations of being covert Jews and overt
> >Catholics. Upon reaching what her ancestors called "the lands of
>Judaism"
> >they embraced Jewish life, and for a short while were part of the
>Amsterdam
> >Jewish revival of the seventeenth century.
> >
> >How her family -- the Senior family -- got to Curacao is not known,
>but
> >they were always key community members, frequently in the leadership
>of the
> >community and supporting Jewish life here. Her
> >great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grand uncle donated the
>Tebah
> >(bimah) still used in Mikve Israel - Emanuel, the synagogue where her
> >family has worshipped since it was built 267 years ago.
> >
> >Last December, a community vote on implementing full ritual
>egalitarianism
> >fail by four votes to achieve a three-quarters majority.  Erin was
>very
> >disappointed but chose to continue to study to read Torah, and
>celebrate
> >her becoming Bat Mitzvah. Rather than accept what girls are allowed
>to do
> >in her synagogue, she and her family chose to have their celebration
>in
> >their home, a first in this community (which used to place people in
> >"herem" for worshipping in a minyan anywhere but in the community
> >synagogue).
> >
> >When I took the position of Rabbi of this oldest synagogue in
>continual use
> >in the western hemisphere I was asked to chant Torah to Western
> >Spanish-Portuguese Torah tropes. Then, no member of Mikve Israel -
>Emanuel
> >knew those melodies. Thanks to Rabbi Ira Rohde of Shearith Israel in
>New
> >York City, I learned a version of those tropes, and have taught them
>to
> >four Bar/t Mitzvah students.
> >
> >At Shabbat Minhah services on 29 Tishray 5760 (9 October 1999) Erin
>will
> >read from a Torah brought by an older native Curacao relative, loaned
>from a
> >congregation in Connecticut where the rabbi's wife is yet another
>native
> >Curacaoan.
> >
> >Erin will be the first woman to read Torah on Curacao.
> >
> >She is within the first group of descendants of Spanish & Portuguese
> >Sephardic Jews here to re-embrace the Torah melodies of her
>ancestors. (In
> >fact she may be one a mere handful of Spanish & Portuguese Sephardic
>women
> >who know how chant Torah!)
> >
> >More importantly, her quiet perseverance has brought about many
>changes in
> >her family and others here, motivating woman many years her elders to
>get
> >involved in Jewish life and living.
> >
> >And what do I ask of you?
> >
> >It would be wonderful to present Erin with a book of well wishes from
>like
> >minded Jews from around the world, congratulating her on her
>achievement
> >and encouraging her to continue and deepen her Jewish learning.
>Helping
> >Erin see how her acts and desires tie her into a larger Jewish world
>would
> >be a powerful gift.
> >
> >Please write her a note, or a letter. Send them to (Joel's note: The
>rabbi
> >has indicated "Dayenu" and asked that no more messages need be
>sent...)
> >and I'll assemble them to present to her at her celebration. <snip>
> >
> >Feel free to pass this on to whomever you think would be interested.
> >
> >Hag Samayah! May the Holy One bless us all as we begin a new Torah
>reading
> >cycle.
> >
> >Many thanks!
> >
> >Michael and Paola Tayvah
> >
> >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> >
> >Michael Tayvah
> >
> >(599) 9 737 5399
> >mailto:mtayvah (at) cura(dot)net
> >
> >Curacao, Netherlands Antilles
> >
> >12° 06' 30'' North
> >68° 55' 51'' West
>
>
>
>Joel Bresler
>250 E. Emerson Rd.
>Lexington, MA 02420 USA
>
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>



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