Re: Afghanistan

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

  Check out THE WORLDS OF VANISHED JEWRY(I think that's the title) by 
Raphael Patai...there might be some info. in there. I may have the title 
wrong, but the author is right.
     Trudi the G



>From: "Bob Wiener" <wiener (at) mindspring(dot)com>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: Afghanistan
>Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 06:47:44 -0500
>
>I did look throught the "In Israel Today" series, the "Mountain Jews" CD,
>and the UNESCO Jewish Music LP before I posted -- no Afghanistan listing.  
>I
>didn't read the liner notes of my recordings of Bukharan Jews, but defer to
>Judith's expertise that it's close, but no cigar.  (Do people from
>Afghanistan smoke cigars?  Probably not the women.)
>
>In fact, I did come across one LP, "Die Musik der Bibel", with 3 
>selections.
>But that's it so far.
>
>Bob
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Judith R Cohen" <judithc (at) YorkU(dot)CA>
>To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 6:21 AM
>Subject: Afghanistan
>
>
> > hi, I 've never heard of any recordings of music of the Jews of
> > Afghanistan, but there might I suppose be one.I don't remember what the
> > "Queensistan" article said but really it was talking about the Jews of
> > Uzbekistan, mostly Bukhara, and not about Afghanistan.  None of Deben
> > Bhattacharya's recordings ("In Israel Today") mentioned in the last
> > digest includes Afghanistan, though there are, as Lee says, a few tracks
> > from Uzbekistan (incidentally, with very minimal background notes).
> >
> > In fact, there are not that many recordings of music from Afghanistan
> > altogether. There's an old 3-volume LP set from UNESCO; don't know
> > whether it's been re-released on CD. Also, my friend and colleague
> > Veronica Doubleday just sent me her lovely recording of herself singing
> > and playing (on frame drum) the women's wedding songs she learned during
> > her long stay in Herat in the late 70's, while her husband,
> > ethnomusicologist John Baily , was doing his PhD research with men's
> > music of the area: he produced a cassette  called simply "Music of
> > Afghanistan" through the World Music Institute in NYC, with Aziz Herawi.
> > Veronica also has a great book about her life there, called "Three Women
> > of Herat", 1989 I think.
> > I also read, somewhere, that note Bob mentions about the 2 Jews left in
> > Afghanistan; I seem to remember reading that they each occupy a
> > different end of the abandoned synagogue and claim to be the guardian of
> > the Torah, but can't remember where I read this and take it with a grain
> > of salt.
> >
> > Judith
> >
> >
>
>


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