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Mothers of Today - Hayntige Mames
Directed by Henry Lynn
This film, starring Yiddish radio star Esther Field is about…
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
The album includes folksongs in Ladino that Sephardic Jews used to sing in events of the…
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Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
Introduction
Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other…
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac,…
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
In 1979 Esther Warkov, a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came…
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
On March 15, 1899, the distinguished scholar, cantor, composer and avid manuscript…
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
“From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith…
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
In 1979 Esther Warkov, a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel…
Yaqub Murad al-‘Amari (aka Yaqub Bar-Nay)
Murad was a multi-instrumentalist employed by the Iraqi Broadcasting Ensemble in Baghdad…
Abraham Salman
Abraham Salman (born Shaharabani) was a qanun virtuoso, one of the finest players…