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Jewish Musical Traditions
Presents Jewish musical traditions in the form of central themes, based on cultural…
Diversity Within Unity - On Musical Traditions of Jewish Communities in Israel
This article elucidates the old lithurgical and semi lithurgical traditions of music and…
Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World
'Klezmer' is a Yiddish word for professional folk instrumentalist-the flutist, fiddler,…
More Precious Than Pearls: Shbahoth - Songs of Praise in the Jewish-Babylonian tradition for General Use, Sabbaths, Festivals and Life Cycle Events
A compilation of 31 Jewish-Babylonian songs, including Hebrew texts, English…
Songs of the Jews of the island of Djerba: A comparison between two surveys, Hara Sghira (1929) and Hara Kebira (1976)
Comparison of a study of the songs of the Hara Kebira (large Jewish quarter) with Robert…
Italian Jewish musicians in Western musical tradition. II
Abramo Basevi (1818-1885) was a music critic and composer. His book 'Studio sulle opera…
Italian Jewish musicians in Western musical tradition
Giovanni Maria, an excellent flutist, was part of a small group of Jewish musicians in…
The Music of the Mountain Jews
A study of the liturgical and folk music of one of the most remote Jewish communities,…
Philo's views on music
The importance of music to the great Jewish philosopher Philo can be seen in his many…