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Salim Shibith (Salim Ha-Cohen)
Salim Shibith (also known as Salim Ha-Cohen) was a qari al-maqam (“maqam reader”) and…
Armand Sabah
Armand Sabah was born in 1952 in Marrakesh, Morocco, and immigrated to Israel with his…
Nitzan Hen Razael
Nitzan-Chen Razael grew up in Jerusalem in a musical family. His grandfather was a…
The Idelsohn Project
Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in the world is “Hava…
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
Study and commentaries: Rivka Havassy and Edwin Seroussi
Research collaborators:…
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
The passing of the founder of the Yiddish theater spawned a touching emotional response…
Music in Antiquity - The Near East and the Mediterranean
Music was one component of the cultural continuum that developed in the contiguous…
Hishqi Hizqi
The descendants of Marranos from the Iberian Peninsula who settled in Amsterdam from the…
Taqsim in Maqam Hijaz
Simon Shaheen, oud