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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…
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the recent passing of ethnomusicologist…
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
The passing of the founder of the Yiddish theater spawned a touching emotional response…
Blessing Song
A song of blessing for many occasions especially for the bridegroom for an infant boy…
Enni enni tirttu dinam (The fifth of Iyyar)
A Malayalam Zionist song celebrating the declaration of Israeli independence on the…
Muyimpya Tampirnte (When Moses Received knowledge)
This Kerala "play song" for Shavuot is about Mutaliyār Moses receiving the Torah on…
A Recovered Voice from the Past
Preface
The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German…
James Levy
The musical lore of James Levy's family has deep roots in Gibraltar. Toward the end of…