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Esther R. Warkov
… Esther Warkov's seminal contributions to the study of Arab music and Arab-Jewish musicians in Iraq and Israel feature prominently … Ph.D. program in Musicology in 1979. Intent on playing Arabic music, she studied ‘ud with leading Palestinian …
Ami Maayani
… both Mizrahi and Ashkenazi, as well as elements of Arab music throughout his works. He is known internationally …
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… the Muslim community in Tunisia and composed many songs in Arabic. In 1919, with the conclusion of WWI and the release … performed in Jerusalem . He was known and admired even by Arabs in their cities and small towns, and for the women of … delicate relationship that had been built between Jews and Arabs living in Eretz Israel . Security officials suggested …
Ezra Aharon ("Azuri")
… Migration, Cosmopolitanization and Nationalization of Arab/Jewish Music through the Archive of Ezra Aharon ) and … here . Ezra Aharon, aka Azzori (‘Azzūrī, i.e. Ezra in Arabic) [1] al-Awad (the ‘ud player), son of Aharon ben … of Jewish ethnic identities by hailing Azuri as a prominent Arab Jewish artist and stressing his role in the history of …
Amnon Shiloah
… at the Hebrew University where he studied Hebrew and Arabic Literature as well as Bible, graduating in 1951. He … of Jewish ethnomusicology, especially the study of Judeo-Arabic and Sephardic traditions in Iraq and Morocco as well as to the study of Arabic music theory. He also contributed to the study of …
David Menahem
… the cantor Moshe Havusha , taught him the secrets of the Arab Maqam musical system and Arabic musical instruments. Since childhood, along with … with Iraqi musicians, members of the Voice of Israel in the Arabic Radio Orchestra. He also performed as a soloist with …
Alexander Uria Boscovich
… forms, textures, rhythms, and orchestration such as Arab maqamat, taqsim and nouba, heterophony, uneven meter …
Nahum Nardi
… work in collecting melodies and songs from the local Arab residents of Palestine and from Jewish communities from … Li Gan , and Ben Nahar Prat , are examples of melodies with Arabic origins. Nardi developed a unique style of piano … project included performances of Hebrew folk songs with arabic/ oriental origin, in arrangement that emphasized this …
Salah El Kuweiti
… played and sang, and also through performances with the Arabic Orchestra of Kol Yisrael (Israeli Broadcasting … into a cultural ghetto, due to the lack of appreciation of Arabic music in Israeli society, and due to the huge gap … of recognition in Israel. As part of a growing interest in Arab and Jewish-Arab music in Israel, an album of Daoud and …
Rahamim Amar
… in several parallel venues. He would play with various Arab ensembles and perform in cafes and clubs in Jaffa, where he lived. He would also travel to Arab villages to play at events and celebrations. According … 132), who worked with him, Amar used to play with an Arab-Jewish ensemble during the breaks in silent movie …
Tsippi Fleischer
… synthesis. She has incorporated in her works far more Arab melodies, textures and rhythms than most Israeli … as Like Two Branches (1989, cantata, text by Chansa, an Arab woman poet of the sixth century). Fleischer is a …
Robert Lachmann
… at the University of London, with a focus on French and Arabic languages. During World War I he served as an … heading a project to translate several important Medieval Arabic music treatises. In 1930, along with fellow teachers … the head of the Phonogram Commission for the Congress of Arab music in Cairo , and was responsible for recording the …


