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Isaac Eliyahu Navon
Isaac Eliyahu Navon was born in Adrianpole (today Edirne) on May 17, 1859. His…
Joseph Papernikoff
Joseph Papernikoff was born in the late 1990s (1897 or 1899) in the Russian city of…
Yehiel 'Adaki
Yehiel 'Adaki was born in Manakhah in 1903[1] to Aharon and Margalit 'Adaki. The…
Israel Alter
Israel Alter was born in Lvov (then known as Lemberg, today Ukraine) into a Hasidic…
Avner Bahat
Avner Bahat was born in 1932 in Tel Aviv. His mother, Malka (Bitterman), was born in…
The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Late Manifestation of the Musical Trope
Western Ashkenazi cantors have developed a new soloist style of liturgically important…
Review of recording: Pizmon
Discusses 'Pizmon: Syrian-Jewish religious and social song' (Meadowlark 105, 1985)…
La transmission orale de la Mishnah
A pioneer study of the chanting of the Mishnah, the Jewish Oral Law, by the Jews of…
The "Proclamation Style" in Hebrew
The fourth and fifth melodic interval appear to be characteristic of the group of…
Ne'ima (Nagmah) in Medieval Hebrew Literature
Continuing the article on the Term “musiqa” in Yuval I, p. 11-35, this article deals…