Re: threads, 2 urls

[Sylvia Schildt <creativa...>]

They could say

Miriam l'havdil Wagner and all would be well.


Best


Sylvia Schildt


on 2/26/03 6:19 AM, Judith R Cohen at judithc (at) YorkU(dot)CA wrote:

> hi, for one thing, if we are to go on with these kol isha and Wagner
> threads, perhaps people could adjust the subject heading so that Miriam
> and Wagner aren't constantly coupled in the same heading?
> 
>> Re: Kol Isha/Miriam's Song/Wagner
> 
> Trudi, I was going to answer Avi's remarks but since you did it so
> effectively, I'll just say, "ditto for me".
> 
> I can't imagine what Marvin's comment about some people being turned off
> by obesity has to do with anything; perhaps it was meant for some
> mysterious listserv, for example a support group for people trying to
> deal with their prejudices against obesity and, to borrow a phrase from
> an early message in the kol isha thread, his "vent" somehow got
> displaced and ended up here.
> 
> Here's a local Portuguese newspaper's write-up (in Portuguese) about a
> presentation Tamar and I did a little while ago on Crypto-Jews in
> Portugal, for a Toronto synagogue (great mixture of men, women, Jews,
> non-Jews, Ashkenazim, Sephardim, old, young, thin, fat, but - actually
> no one was counting) .
> The title of the article, Ö adufe esteve na sinagoga" means "the adufe
> was at the synagogue".
> The adufe is the Portuguese women's square drum, in the Middle Ages
> depicted as played by women (only women) in all three religions of
> Iberia (incidentally, Miriam is depicted as playing it in the famous
> "Golden Haggadah" of 14th century Spain ; a reproduction is on the
> inside booklet of our CD) . Tamar and I have worked quite intensively on
> the instrument with village women in Portugal and use it a lot. The
> Crypto-Jewish women in Belmonte say they never played it but they appear
> in fact to have done in the past, and often ask me to play mine on odd
> occasions.
> 
> http://www.solnet.com/14fev03/home.htm  (scroll down a bit)
> 
> Portuguese TV is coming to interview us about it on Saturday (so I'm
> going to spend some serious time with a good coffee and Portuguese verbs
> tables: messing up is one thing in transient situations and another when
> one's mistakes are broadcast to 150,000+ Ontario Portuuese speakers.)
> 
> Also, here's a write-up, albeit brief, of the Peace Concert/Dialogue
> Tamar and I were part of earlier this month in Toronto.
> There were roughly equal numbers of Muslims and Jews, including very
> heavily veiled Muslim women. The music was great, and so were the
> organization and level of human interaction, but I do have several
> non-musical reservations which don't belong on this list.
> http://www.cjnews.com/campus/campus.htm                   Judith
> 
> 

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