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A Bookshelf On Top of the Sky: 12 Stories about John Zorn
Directed by Claudia Heuermann.
John Zorn is a Jewish American composer who has been…
Almonds and Raisins
Directed by Russ Karel
Yiddish talking cinema burst into the film scene after…
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
[1]The triple blessing, or the Priestly Blessing, is arguably the most…
Brakha Tzefira
Brakha Tzefira was born in Jerusalem in 1910. Her father emmigrated from Yemen in 1887,…
Aharon Amram
Aharon Amram was born in Sana'a, Yemen, in 1939. His father, Rabbi Shlomo Amram, worked…
Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
Since the establishment of this community, the Karaites have maintained the basic…
Edge of the West
Directed by Arnan Zafrir
This hour long film documents the different traditions and…
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
The Yiddish language, which probably began to develop around the tenth century A.D. in…
Last Jews in Yemen
Larry S. Frisch
Tamar Jafroie is an Israeli of Yemenite decent. In search or her…
Steiger
A term in use in the European Jewish musical tradition to refer to the different modal…