… on Earth. In the second section, the intimate relationship between God, the Israelites and Moses is described and …

Avraham Da‘ud  was a Qanun player. While in Iraq, Avraham Da‘ud performed with…

Even if you are mildly interested in Jewish music, you cannot avoid Salamone Rossi and…

… to release Rossi from wearing a yellow badge, he had no hope of attaining permanent court employment, a privilege …

… of a large repertoire of Yiddish songs addressing the hardships of a poverty ridden life that include songs that bemoan …

… my work.  So please write.  Also in detail your relationship to this.  (Haimo and Feisst, 2016, Schoenberg’s Early … and structure?  It is the nature of modern scholarship that many scholars stick with a very narrow range of … put in one equation, Einstein’s famous equation, E= mc2.  I hope that this will not scare off half of my potential …

Leó Weiner was born in Budapest. He had his first music and piano lessons from his…

This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…

Kaddish is one of the most important and central parts of the Jewish liturgy. Most of it…

… used to take me over to that cold, unheated house of worship.  The chazzan was Abraham Mordecai Rabinovitz.  His … perplexity of a modern Jew. My father, regarding me as a hopeless case, stopped interfering with my vocation. … Africa, to become a chazzan there, which I accepted.  I hoped to be able to live there a genuine Jewish life and to …