Just felt like sharing some of the music that’s been blaring out of my iPod of late: click above for Deleon, whose style is self-described as “Sephardic Sound De-Time Capsuled and Reinvigorated.” Below you’ll find Dengue Fever – a band started by two nice Jewish brothers that specializes in Cambodian Pop [...]
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Sephardic – Cambodian Dance Mix
Posted in Jewish Music, Rock and Roll, Sephardic Judaism on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In Memory of Judy Frankel
Posted in Jewish Music, Judaism, People You Should Know About, Sephardic Judaism on June 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I was so very saddened to learn about the passing of Judy Frankel, the luminous musician/singer of traditional Sephardic folk melodies, after a long illness.
I first encountered Judy’s music fifteen years ago or so and was immediately transfixed. There are many new interpreters of Sephardic music on the Jewish music scene today, but Judy always [...]
Tilting at Windmills?
Posted in Judaism, Literature, Religion, Sephardic Judaism on April 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I just finished reading a fascinating article in the European Jewish Press that spotlighted a Jewish historian’s theory that the legendary Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes belonged to a family of conversos – Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity or face expulsion from Spain after 1492.
Historian Abraham Haim, an expert on Sephardic [...]
