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The most prominent path-breaking Arab-Jewish performers during this period included the Yemenite singers Bracha Zefira and Sarah Asnat-Halevi.Bracha Zefira
Discography
N.B. Additional recordings and re-releases will be added as cataloged.
Biography
Born of Yemenite parents and orphaned early in life, at the age of six Zefira was taken in by a Sephardi widow.
She heard her first Judeo-Spanish romances from the women of the Yemin Moshe neighborhood. She later learned traditional Sephardic songs from both Alberto Hemsi and Yitzhak Navon.
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Zefira concertized extensively in the early 1930s and several Israeli composers later arranged her song choices. (Hirshberg, 1995; Zefira, ND.)
Zefira's extensive public performances introduced the wider Israeli public to Sephardic songs for the first time, and it was squarely in an art-song, "a la Franka" style.
Her recordings were mastered from 1937 onward. A handful of her Hebrew works were issued on 78, as well as a Hebrew setting of the melody of Yendome, set to Hebrew words as Yesh Li Gan ("I have a garden".) Zefira's songs such as
