… 2016 and I am sitting in a car, driving on a mountain road that winds down along the Lebanese coastline, overlooking the … (AMAR). Located in the little mountain village Qornet al-Hamra just outside of Beirut, AMAR holds one of the largest … the period of cultural and intellectual “renaissance” that characterized the Arab-Ottoman world during the …

… feelings among listeners. Surprisingly, this topic has been the subject of little scholarly attention, despite … the Crusader massacres (Fraenkel, Gross, and Lehnardt 2016; Haverkamp 2005; Assis 2000). Our study reviews the great … in Ashkenazi culture, as expressed through the poems that were sung to Niggun ‘Akedah.  It will assess their …