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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics:…
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…
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…
Abraham Salman
Abraham Salman (born Shaharabani) was a qanun virtuoso, one of the finest players…
Hisqil Qassab
Hesqil Kassab was one of the most famous Iraqi maqam reciters in the twentieth…
Armand Sabah
Armand Sabah was born in 1952 in Marrakesh, Morocco, and immigrated to Israel with his…
Nitzan Hen Razael
Nitzan-Chen Razael grew up in Jerusalem in a musical family. His grandfather was a…