… at war with Spain, and therefore, the Iberian Jews preferred to call themselves the 'Portuguese community' rather … time. Architects Elias Bouwman and Daniël Stalpaert were hired to build it. Construction began in 1671, and should have … notation occurred in a number of Sephardic communities across the crumbling Ottoman Empire, where the Jews felt the …

… in musical practice, and the Iraqi musicians provided an incredibly rich case study to investigate. In Baghdad, Jewish … had not only traversed cultural worlds, but had also suffered a deep loss of status. Having been prominent, commercial … Andalusian Orchestra and other Jewish and Arab ensembles across the country, as well as various ensembles dedicated to …

… southern Germany and northern France. However, it also acquired two new layers of meaning. The first was a Jewish … [3]  portraying the anti-Jewish persecutions which occurred from 1096 onwards often mention the Binding of Isaac. At … References to the Niggun ‘Akedah     We have never come across the indication be-niggun ‘Akedah over an ‘Akedah …

… stem from the popular songs he composed (more than five hundred), which he wrote for Egypt’s most popular singers of the … Egyptian music. [2] His songs and compositions were played across the Arab world, and are still performed and remembered today. The memorialization of Daoud Hosni is a matter of …

… engaged in collective documentation projects, prepared historically informed and creative performances, and … nearly every note recorded by people who have become revered as masters of instrumental klezmer music in the 1920s, … as a common mode of expression with its own variations across Jewish communities, limiting his analysis to melodic …

… known in the present have generated a rather dense, one-hundred year old literature on the subject. This quest produced … revolutionary research” on the subject and delivered in live performances to the (un)critical acclaim of the … Zvi Idelsohn carried the first thorough analysis of the cross-cultural melody-type to which Hatikvah belongs. In the …

… was with the poet Yaakov Orland . Their names appeared together so many times, that many thought that Zeira's … a young man from Kibbutz H anita died in action. This inspired me to write a song, and when I came to Mitieh (Zeira), I … unknown today, sang it at the theater, and it soon  spread across the land.   Shney Shoshanim In a newspaper interview, …