isaac, there is nothing isolated about shoshana damari. her family migrated to israel when she was ONE year old. she was raised in israel and spoke modern hebrew, and probably made an enormous effort to auppress her accent and use modern hebrew. as immigrants were supposed to do those days. i added a biography below.
soviy is already passé. nowadays they say tistoveviy. and the lyrics is clearly not biblical since mamterah (sprinkler) is a modern invention. damari is no proof to your theories about naqdanim, nor about darshanim. and if she is, you'd better look for better ones. are we going to discuss modern hebrew forever or return to BHebrew? nir cohen ------------------------- De: Isaac Fried <[email protected]> Cópia: B-Hebrew <[email protected]> Para: K Randolph <[email protected]> Data: Wed, 18 May 2011 17:37:38 -0400 Assunto: Re: [b-hebrew] SOBIY This is a modern song written in biblical Hebrew, and performed by a superb singer of Yemenite origin. The isolated Jews of Yemen are believed to have kept a very ancient pronunciation of Hebrew. There is no evidence that anyone ever spoke (spoke!) Biblical Hebrew. I believe that the NAQDANIYM had a well established tradition, or MASORAH, of how to read the Hebrew bible in general, and the TORAH in particular. Isaac Fried, Boston University ---------------------------- Shoshana Damari Curtir Ator/Diretor Descrição De Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre Shoshana Damari (born 1923 - died February 14, 2006) was a Yemenite-Israeli singer known as the "queen of Hebrew music." Biography Shoshana Damari was born in Dhamar, Yemen. The family immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1924 in the wake of growing persecution against the Jews, and settled in Rishon LeZion. At a young age, Damari played drums and sang accompaniment for her mother, who performed at family celebrations and gatherings of the Yemenite community in Palestine. At 14, her first songs were broadcast on the radio. She studied singing and acting at the Shulamit Studio in Tel Aviv, where she met Shlomo Bosmi, the studio manager who became her personal manager. They wed in 1939, when she was only 16. Musical career In 1945, Damari joined Li-La-Lo, a revue theater established by impresario Moshe Wallin. The group performed light entertainment and satire as a counterweight to the serious theater of the time. Damari became known for her distinctive husky voice and Yemenite pronunciation. Her first record was released in 1948 and her best known song Kalaniyot (Anemones) dates from that period. She was especially popular among Israeli soldiers, for whom she frequently performed. In the mid-1980s, Damari teamed up with Boaz Sharabi for a duet that brought her back into the limelight. She was awarded the Israel Prize in 1988 for Hebrew song and a Life Achievement Award by the Israeli Composers and Publishers Association (ACUM) in 1995. _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
