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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…
Leó Weiner
Leó Weiner was born in Budapest. He had his first music and piano lessons from his…
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the recent passing of ethnomusicologist…
The Idelsohn Project
Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in the world is “Hava…
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
The passing of the founder of the Yiddish theater spawned a touching emotional response…
El lifne [sic] har Galil (shir hatunah)
Iran (Shiraz)
El lifne [sic] har Galil (shir hatunah). The god appearing in front of…
Enni enni tirttu dinam (The fifth of Iyyar)
A Malayalam Zionist song celebrating the declaration of Israeli independence on the…
"Im Nin’alu Daltei Nedivim" (Were the gates of the munificent closed)
Im nin’alu daltei nedivim is a shira by Shalem Shabazi, signed Alshabazi. This poem is…