Re: from yesterday's Yediot Ahronot

[lenka lichtenberg <lenkal...>]

13 years ago, it came as a great shock to me to find out that, having
married a sabra of Iraqi Jewish origin, i also married family parties of my
in-laws enlivened by Arab music groups  (very loud). i happen to enjoy the
music greatly, but had a problem reconciling the fact of the family having
barely escaped an Iraqi pogrom (1941 i think), and them being so stuck on
Arabic - anything ( music, language, food, clothes...) . i learned, whatever
it is you grew up with is stronger than most later influences ( in their
case, anyway, while i'm the opposite). they don't perceive the Arab culture
as at all tainted by politics.
              lenka
www.lenkalichtenberg.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Sandra Layman <sandralayman (at) earthlink(dot)net>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: from yesterday's Yediot Ahronot


> A somewhat related topic: it's my understanding that performers of
> traditional Iraqi music used to include many Jewish musicians.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <NESKATAN (at) aol(dot)com>
> To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 8:09 AM
> Subject: from yesterday's Yediot Ahronot
>
>
> > Ovadia Orders Shas Pupils to Study Arab Music
> >
> > Acting under the express instructions of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi
> Ovadia Yosef, teachers in Shas&#8217;s El Hamaayan schools have begun
giving
> pupils lessons on the subject of Arab musicology. Ovadia Yosef is known to
> be an avid fan of Arabic music, and many prayers in Sephardi synagogues
are
> sung in Arabic tunes. The change occurred in the wake of a report that
> appeared in the Shas newspaper, Yom Leyom, that Rabbi Ovadia Yosef ruled:
> &#8220;One should give preference to Arab melodies over secular Israeli
> tunes... in the quiet Arab melodies, the soul sits better with the melody.
> That is not the case with the secular melodies and all the more so in the
> foreign material, where the rhythm and the tonal jumps are relatively
> wild.&#8221;
>
>
>

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