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A Recovered Voice from the Past

… Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German … Yemenites, Arabs, falla h im, [3] Georgians, Sephardic Jews, kushim , [4] Galician Jews and so forth. All sorts of sounds emanated from his …

Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire

… Upon Zangwill’s question, how can I return to Russia, where Jews are so maltreated, I answered that I prefer to be with … advice of relatives, to London intending to enroll at the Jews’ College where I would begin to study English. However, … a Jew would want to return to Russia, a wretched place for Jews, I replied to him that I prefer to be with my brothers …

James Levy

… together with a sizeable group of Moroccan and Gibraltar Jews who took advantage of that country’s immigration …

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Arrorró, mi alma (Nanas del arrorró)

… This widespread lullaby is sung by non-Jews in Spain and in South America, and probably reached the …

Luvia del Dio (Invocaciòn a la lluvia)

… was needed, Jewish children were asked to pray, even by non-Jews. … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the …

Nefutsot Yehuda synagogue (Illustrated by Ariel Lazarus)

Jews in Gibraltar and the music of their synagogues

… Jews in Gibraltar and the music of their synagogues: An … since at least the 14th century, the modern history of the Jews in “the Rock” starts after the Treaty of Utrecht in … the rule of the Great Britain. One has to remember that Jews had been readmitted to England in 1655 following Oliver …