… as rabbi. Huri belonged to the Zionist sector of the Jewish community. This sector, unlike the yeshivah students that were supported by the Jewish community, worked during the day for their … Huri received an invitation to from the rich Baghdadi Jewish community in India. At the same time, his brothers …

[1]The Tedeschian Jews are Ashkenazi Jews who originated in Germany, and immigrated to…

… of intensive study by a distinguished gallery of modern Jewish and non-Jewish scholars since the early nineteenth-century, starting … the  seder , a religious ceremony anchored in the ancient practices of the rabbis, in the nominally  secular kibbutzim …

… exoticism” that captivated at the time the American Jewish audience. It is clear that the voices of Shoshana … These instruments are not characteristic of the Yemenite Jewish tradition and betray the encounter of Dahiyani with Jewish musicians from other Arab-Jewish traditions in …

“Call and response,” “responsive,” or “responsorial” is a singing performance style in…

… manginot mibeit Abba", produced by  Renanot : Institute for Jewish music. CD1703 in the National Sound Archive.  Score … the second half of the twentieth century, when many German Jewish liturgical traditions fell into oblivion, the …

…   “Sher: One of the most common dance forms in the Jewish repertoire, similar to a square dance or a Russian … their weddings and celebrations, to which they invited Jewish musicians. The Ukrainian youth there danced the  šer  … 1982, p. 526, n. 18] .  “Gathering data on Jewish folk dances, and especially on the widespread …

… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … and saints, or Leidensgeschichte and Geistesgeschichte . Jewish Studies in this formulation consisted of the … rabbinic elites. In the twentieth century, scholars of the Jewish past have moved far beyond this constricting …

… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the … and died on April 30, 2020. He came, as do many Moroccan Jewish performing artists and composers, from a family of … identity. Religious zeal intertwines with modern secular practices, while rooted musical and textual genres interlace …

… cycle at the end of winter is a relatively newcomer to the Jewish calendar, going back “only” to Mishnaic times. … exerted great influence on modern Sephardic and Oriental Jewish ritual practices. This influence is clearly reflected in the …