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Arabs - Jews - Music
With the rise of Islam and the expanding Arab conquests throughout the Middle East,…
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
I spent the summer of 1989 living in a Nazareth Illit (today Nof HaGalil) neighborhood…
Abraham Salman
Abraham Salman (born Shaharabani) was a qanun virtuoso, one of the finest players…
Salim Shibith (Salim Ha-Cohen)
Salim Shibith (also known as Salim Ha-Cohen) was a qari al-maqam (“maqam reader”) and…
Armand Sabah
Armand Sabah was born in 1952 in Marrakesh, Morocco, and immigrated to Israel with his…
The Idelsohn Project
Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in the world is “Hava…
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
The passing of the founder of the Yiddish theater spawned a touching emotional response…
Taqsim in Maqam Hijaz
Simon Shaheen, oud
Taqsim in Maqam Madmi
Albert Elias, nay