Naomi Bahat-Ratzon

Researcher focusing on traditional and folk dance of various cultures, among them the Druze community in the villages of the Golan Heights, and the Jewish communities of Yemen, to which she dedicated the majority of her work. In addition, Bahat-Ratzon is a music and dance educator. In 2012 she won the Shabazi Prize together with her husband Avner Bahat, in light of their contribution to the research of the music and dance of the Yemenite Jewish communities in Israel. Along with Bahat they edited records focusing on songs from the Diwan of the Jews of Central Yemen. Bahat-Ratzon also published numerous articles and books focusing on ethnic music and dance in Israel.

For more information about Bahat-Ratzon's publications see here.     



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