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Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac,…
Moshe Attias
The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent passing of Cheikh…
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
Introduction
It is November 15, 2016 and I am sitting in a car, driving on a mountain…
Ben-Zion (Yisrael Noach) Kapov-Kagan
Yisrael Noach Kapov-Kagan was born in 1899 in Romania. He began singing from a young…
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics:…
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the…
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
This is a short extract of the article “Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan…
Abraham Salman
Abraham Salman (born Shaharabani) was a qanun virtuoso, one of the finest players…
Hisqil Qassab
Hesqil Kassab was one of the most famous Iraqi maqam reciters in the twentieth…