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David Abikzer
David Abikzer was born in 1939 in Casablanca, Morocco, and it was there that…
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Esther R. Warkov
Esther Warkov's seminal contributions to the study of Arab music and Arab-Jewish…
Hanina Karaczewski
Hanina Karaczewski was born in Petrovka, Bessarabia. Before immigrating to Palestine in…
Mordekhai Hershman
Mordekhai (Mordecai; Mordkhe) Hershman was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov…
Nahum Nardi
Nahum Nardi was born Nahum Narodietzky in 1901 to a religious-Zionist family in Kiev,…
Yedidyah Admon
Yedidya Admon was born in Yekaterinoslav, Ukraine in 1894. He emigrated to Palestine…
Ya'akov Orland
Yaacob Orland was born in 1914 in Tetiev, Ukraine, to Eliezer and Batya Orland. In 1919…
Kumiko Yayama
Research areas: Arabic music and piyutim.
See also: "Home from Japan".
Amnon Shiloah
Born in Lanus, Argentina in 1928 to a family of Jewish immigrants from Syria, Shiloah…
Albert Elias
Elias was a virtuoso nay player, composer and instrument maker. In Baghdad Elias studied…