Herzl Shmueli was born in Istanbul and immigrated to Palestine in 1933. He studied…

This collection consists of musical settings by Amiran of poems by various poets.

Hebrew title: שירים לילדים Children's songs composed by Joel Walbe, and written by…

… period, Holland was at war with Spain, and therefore, the Iberian Jews preferred to call themselves the 'Portuguese … spacious sanctuary is decorated in a typical Sephardic-Iberian style, the wooden ark and bimah located at the side … non-Jewish cultures. It combines elements from the Iberian royalty, recollections and acceptance of their …

… in the marriages celebrated in the two cities [Tzfat and Tiberias]. Thus the processional melodies -- in the slow …

… to the city between 1492-97 after their expulsion from the Iberian peninsula. The Ottoman Empire largely absorbed these …

Origin of the term The word originates from Rumanian. As an ancient term it meant a…

* This entry is a summarized version of the full artice about Israeli folksongs by…

… a halakhic authority, Biblical commentator and poet, this Iberian order of selihot remained in continuous use in the …

… music and flamenco, two traditions that crystallized in the Iberian Peninsula and are at times associated with one …   Background Sepharad is the medieval Hebrew name for the Iberian Peninsula. The Sephardic Jews' ancestors were … Ladino, is based on medieval Romance languages from the Iberian Peninsula along with vocabulary, morphological and …