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Moshe Cordova
Moshe Cordova
Composer, singer, ‘ud and piano player Moshe Cordova (b. Edirne,…
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
In 1979 Esther Warkov, a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel…
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the…
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv, aka the “…
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
I spent the summer of 1989 living in a Nazareth Illit (today Nof HaGalil) neighborhood…
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
This is a short extract of the article “Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan…
Yaqub Murad al-‘Amari (aka Yaqub Bar-Nay)
Murad was a multi-instrumentalist employed by the Iraqi Broadcasting Ensemble in Baghdad…
Abraham Salman
Abraham Salman (born Shaharabani) was a qanun virtuoso, one of the finest players…
Yitzhak Aviezer
Former Music Director and Producer for Voice of Israel in Arabic, composer, and…
Hisqil Qassab
Hesqil Kassab was one of the most famous Iraqi maqam reciters in the twentieth…