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Dudu Barak
Dudu Barak is a writer of Israeli folk songs. He was born in Jerusalem in 1948 and grew…
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
Asher Shimon Mizrahi was born in the old city of Jerusalem in 1890 to father Yitzhak…
Josef Tal (Gruenthal)
Josef Tal (b. Pine, Germany 1910 - Jerusalem 2008, immigrated in 1934), composer,…
Nahum Nardi
Nahum Nardi was born Nahum Narodietzky in 1901 to a religious-Zionist family in Kiev,…
Joseph Achron
Joseph Achron was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania. His musical genius…
Parallels Between the Old–French and the Jewish Song
A somewhat controversial article in which Idelsohn tries to show traces of Jewish music…
The Mogen Ovos Mode: a Study in Folklore
Singing the prayer magen avot, the abbreviated repetition of Sabbath-eve amidah, is an…
Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World
'Klezmer' is a Yiddish word for professional folk instrumentalist-the flutist, fiddler,…
A Critic Look at His generation
Following the foundation of the State of Israel in 1948 one can clearly detect a growing…