A patron is looking of an article that was probably published in Ma'ariv (Israeli daily newspaper) in June 1991
The following is an English excerpt from the paper, but she does not have an exact citation (date, pages, etc.)
"The article is actually a general one that deals with why people in neighborhoods like shekhunah dalet and kiryat ata ---don't speak "good" Hebrew and commenting on the "Turkish, Turkish" trend in Mizrahi music. I can give you a couple of alleged quotes from the article in English ---
The Neighborhood Abandoned Hebrew????
"There is no more insulting definition than the connection between a Greek tone and the spice of an oud, between the North African curl and Nomi Shemer 's Hebrew. So it's all over. There is no continuation of the Mediterranean experiment. The market only buys heavy Arabic, or Turkish Turkish. They want Arab stuff not Greek Hebrew. The public's request climaxes in Ofer Levi and Zahava Ben. These are the two making business boil. It is from the Be'er Sheva quarter, which is the Kiryat Ata quarter [also a poor industrial neighborhood]. Take the history of the twenty-one years that she has been living, and understand what the Shkunat Dalet (The "D" neighborhood where Zehava Ben grew up) is and why they don't speak Hebrew there.
Tsror, Rino. The neighborhood abandoned Hebrew, Maariv sof ha shavua (end of the week). June 1991. This is a weekend supplement that did not list page numbers.
Can someone identify it?
Thank you,
Yossi Galron The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210 galron.1 @ osu.edu
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