… Ph.D., Columbia University. Researcher on Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music, as well as the literature of the Ottoman and Central Asian Turks. Conducted research and … klezmer music in the United States. His book , Music of the Ottoman Court: Makam,Composition, and the Early Ottoman …

… community). (Kaufman 1990: 197).   As part of the former Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria had a Sephardic majority consisting …

… in his opinion, in the early Hassidic immigration to Ottoman Palestine. This musical “Orientalism” finds its …

… was born in 1903 in Baghdad, which was then under Ottoman rule. The Jewish community he was born to was … transformation that followed the social reforms of the Ottomans (“ tanzimat ”) and growing presence of European …

… and transnationalism in specific contexts such as the Ottoman Empire, and the constitution of Jewish identities …

… on music treatises in Arabic script (Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish, etc.) in libraries thorough Europe, …

… was the development of art music in he Jewish community in Ottoman and British Palestine (the Yishuv) before 1948, and …

… of the Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old traditional Ottoman Jewish community ruled by rabbinical authority was … Zionism) and to subversive political ideologies within the Ottoman Empire. Haim was educated in one of the most … called  Maftirim  used to perform its ancient repertoire of Ottoman Hebrew music on Sabbath mornings and afternoons at …

אף על פי ששמו כזמר וכמוסיקאי שאין לו אח ורע הלך לפניו בימי חייו, הגיעו אלינו פרטים מעטים…

… of the Sephardi Jewish song in the last decades of the Ottoman period. Already in 1938, the Jewish scholar M.D. … and behavior affecting the Jewish communities of the Ottoman Empire . He received a European oriented education … model, and studied Turkish classical music with the great Ottoman Jewish composer Shem Tov Chikiar (1840-1920). At a …

… . Amar developed a unique compositional style, blending the Ottoman Hebrew tradition in which he was brought up in the …

… of the most prosperous communities of Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman Empire. The scholars of Adrianpole excelled … currents which spread through the big urban centers of the Ottoman Empire in the 1860s: Haskalah (Jewish enlightenment) … when Navon worked towards acquiring a permit from the Ottoman authorities to publish Ben-Yehuda's newpaper, Hatsvi …