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The Archives of the World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine, 1936-1940, at the Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem
The World Centre for Jewish Music was established in 1936 by German and Austrian…
Zemirot
The word Zemirot means literally 'songs' or 'hymns' but is used to refer to two specific…
The Tedeschian Community
[1]The Tedeschian Jews are Ashkenazi Jews who originated in Germany, and immigrated to…
Society for Jewish Folk Music
Violins, Voice and Jews
In the spring of 1897, on the eve of the Russian Orthodox…
Representations of Jews in the Musical Theater of the Habsburg Empire (1788-1807)
Research on the image of the Jew in eighteenth-century literature and theater has not…
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
[1]The triple blessing, or the Priestly Blessing, is arguably the most…
Brakha Tzefira
Brakha Tzefira was born in Jerusalem in 1910. Her father emmigrated from Yemen in 1887,…
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
The Yiddish language, which probably began to develop around the tenth century A.D. in…
Anim Zemirot
The Piyyut 'Anim Zemirot,' also known as 'Shir HaKavod' (Song of Glory), appears in the…
Shir HaKavod
The Piyyut 'Anim Zemirot,' also known as 'Shir HaKavod' (Song of Glory), usually appears…