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Isaac Eliyahu Navon
Isaac Eliyahu Navon was born in Adrianpole (today Edirne) on May 17, 1859. His father,…
Brakha Tzefira
Brakha Tzefira was born in Jerusalem in 1910. Her father emmigrated from Yemen in 1887,…
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
Childhood and early musical career
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur (يوسف زعرور) was born in…
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
In 1958, on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk…
Yehiel 'Adaki
Yehiel 'Adaki was born in Manakhah in 1903[1] to Aharon and Margalit 'Adaki. The…
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… outside of Beirut, AMAR holds one of the largest existing collections of historical records from the Nahda time, the … its text also appears in nineteenth century manuscript collections from Aleppo, such as the one published by the …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… did not include any examples of khosidl in his published collections. Judging by commercial recordings from Europe …
Doyne (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
A Recovered Voice from the Past
Preface
The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German…