Jewish Diaspora

Brooklyn-based Israeli multi-instrumentalist and singer Daphna Mor and performer/researcher Elizabeth Weinfield join host Debra Nagy for an exploration of Jewish identity and musical traditions. Daphna Mor will share how she has incorporated Jewish liturgical music into her performing life and demonstrate the art of Piyut, an oral tradition in which Jewish communities in Yemen, Iran, Morocco, Turkey, and elsewhere set ancient Hebrew liturgical texts to different tunes. Elizabeth Weinfield shares her research into Jewish Converso composer Leonora Duarte (1610 – ca. 1678), locating Duarte within the broader history of the Jewish Diaspora following the Spanish Inquisition.

Episode Credits

Debra Nagy, host & executive producer
Shelby Yamin, associate producer
Eric Milnes, Remote Collaboration Audio production

Episode Guests

Daphna Mor

Recorder

Elizabeth Weinfield

Viola da gamba

Shelby Yamin

Violin

Mélisande Corriveau

Viola da gamba

Resources

Links to recordings and additional web resources coming soon.

Music

Leonara Duarte: Sinfonia no. 5
Courtesy Sonnambula

Duarte: Sinfonia no. 1
Courtesy Sonnambula

Sephardic Song (Morocco): Mosé salió de Misrayim / Hodu La’adonai
Arr. Nina Stern: Rotta
Courtesy East of the River

Piyut for Rosh Hashana: Achot Ketana
Courtesy Daphna Mor

Piyut (Morocco), Arr. Mor: Ein K’eloheinu

Sponsors

SEASON UNDERWRITERS
Joseph Sopko & Elizabeth Macintyre
Deborah Malamud & Neal Plotkin
Tom & Marilyn McLaughlin

EPISODE SPONSORS
William Anderson
Gerry Fathauer & Jeff Hutchinson
Arthur Rotatori & Tara Fields
Sarah Steiner
Marc Vincent & Alex Nalbach 

REMOTE ARTIST SPONSORS
John & Joanne Goodell
Paula Mindes & George Gilliam
Tim & Marjorie Minnis
Shirley Simmons
Jean Toombs
Daniel Williams