Yitzhak Isaac Levy
Yitzhak Isaac Levy ( Hebrew יצחק לוי; born May 15, 1919 in Manisa ( Turkey ); died July 21, 1977 in Jerusalem ) was a Turkish-Israeli singer in the baritone register, musicologist, especially for Sephardic music and composer . He was also active as a radio director and author on musicological topics.
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Isaac Levy was born in Manisa, not far from Izmir, to a Sephardic family and came to Palestine with his parents at the age of three . In 1922 Palestine was under the British mandate .
He studied in Jerusalem at the Jerusalem Conservatory of Music in Jerusalem, today's Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance ( Hebrew האקדמיה למוסיקה ולמחול בירושלים), and in Tel Aviv at the Samuel Rubin Israel Academy of Music, a music conservatory . Levy began to create his own works early on, setting to music verses from the Torah and writings by poets from the Golden Age of Spanish Judaism, such as Jehuda Halevi , Ibn Gabirol , Abraham ibn Esra and others. a. He also composed songs in Hebrew , including children's songs.
Yitzhak Levy was close to the politicians and activists who spoke Ladino , the most prominent representatives being Yitzhak Navon and Jacob Körner . Navon wrote two musicals based on Sephardic folklore and Levy's music collection, Sephardic Romancero (1968) and Bustan Sephardi (1970), both of which premiered with great success at the Habimah , the Israeli national theater in Tel Aviv.
Due to his diverse social influence he succeeded in establishing a series in Ladino for the Sephardic community of Jerusalem in 1954 on the Israeli Radio Kol Israel . In 1955, Yitzhak Levy became the program director for programs in Ladino, which are now broadcast daily on Kol Israel, and from 1963 he became the director of music programs for the Israeli communities.
During this time at the radio station he managed to finance his project of creating a broad ethnographic collection of songs and music, which also included liturgical and spiritual songs and which musically traced the diaspora of the Spanish Jewish community, such as in the Sephardic communities in Amsterdam, Izmir, Tangier, etc.
With Kohava Levy (* 1946) Isaac Levy had a daughter who continues his tradition and cause as a singer and composer Yasmin Levy . Kohava Levy is also a well-known singer of Sephardic songs.
Works
- Yitzhak Levy Cante Judeo-Español. Association Vidas Largas, Paris 1980
- Chants judéo-espagnols. vol. I, Londres, World Sephardi Federation, [1959]; vols. II, Jerusalem, el autor, 1970; vol. III, Jerusalem, el autor, 1971; vol. IV, Jerusalem, el autor, 1973. Ver
- Antología de Liturgia Judeo-Española. vols. I-VIII, Jerusalem, el autor-Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, s. a .; vol. IX, id., 1977; vol. X, redactado por Moshé Giora Elimelekh, Jerusalén, Instituto de Estudios del Cante Judeo-Español, 1980
literature
- Center for Jewish History. No. 14 Spring / Summer 2006. (PDF) p. 5
- Edwin Seroussi : Reconstructing Sephardi Music in the 20th Century: Isaac Levy and his Chants judeo-espagnols . In: The World of Music (Jewish Musical Culture - Past and Present), 37/1, 1995, pp. 39-58.
Web links
- Bibliography on Yitzhak Isaac Levy. The National Library of Israel.
- The Second Half-Century of Sephardic Recordings.
- Las Notas de Matilda - Cantadores de la tradisión djudeo-espanyola: Kohava Levy enero 11th, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short biography (English)
- ↑ Interview Yasmin Levy: Mano Suave (Nuzzcom). In: Die Zeit , No. 12/2008
- ↑ Ladino-authority.com ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Jewish Musical Heritage, B4
- ↑ Matilda Koen-Sarano: Isaac Levy. Baritón - Kompozitor de múzika i Investigador. Cantadores en Ladino.
- ↑ world music; Ayala Goldmann: God wants me to sing Ladino . The Israeli singer Yasmin Levy on tour in the Jüdischen Allgemeine , September 24, 2009
- ^ Biography of Kohava Levy. (in Ladino)
- ↑ The Levy couple.
- ↑ Bibliografía Sefardí Comentada. Sefardiweb
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Levy, Yitzhak Isaac |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Levy, Yitzhak |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish-Israeli musician, composer, radio director, author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manisa |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 21, 1977 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |