… as a concert violinist throughout Europe and the Near East , finally settling in New York in 1925. There, he …

… to his many devout listeners among Mizrahi communities (nearing 50% of the Jewish population), many leading … on Esther Warkov’s Music for Peace in the Middle East YouTube channel: Ah Ya Nass al Hawa Law Hakam  … full dissertation Hirshberg, Jehoash. “ Performers Between East and West – Ideology and Reality in the Yishuv .” In …

… a distinguished cantor originally from Constantine in eastern Algeria who at the age of thirteen already …

… such a Yiddish song. The modality is reminiscent of Middle-Eastern songs, such as the baladi songs of Syrian and … incorporate elements of Yemenite songs in combination with Eastern European motives – making this a paramount example … backgrounds a synthetic fusion of the stereotyped Jewish “East” and “West,” which seems to collapse the distance …

… piyut . El debate de las flores was still sung in the Eastern Mediterranean until the early-twentieth century as … document of El debate de las flores as it was sung in an Eastern Mediterranean Sephardic community are the recordings … probable adaptation of a local melody from Rhodes or the nearby city of Izmir to El debate de las flores that differs …

… Three Pilgrimage Festivities and the High Holy Days. The Eastern European communities took the limitations the … for the Priestly Blessing. Paradoxically, it was, at least in part, because the Ashkenazi Diaspora communities … of the Priestly Blessings of the Ashkenazi synagogue from east to west, one finds that the melodies may range from …

… Jewish historical memory, this fast day has not generated nearly as much Hebrew poetical creativity as the Ninth of … version of the melody, identified by Avenary as the “Eastern European” one, is quoted from Idelsohn in volume 8 … Thesaurus of Oriental Jewish Melodies ,  dedicated to the Eastern European Ashkenazi liturgy (1932, no. 211). This …

… Kal de los Francos (Synagogue of the Europeans) since at least the late 1910s. It was founded by Jews of Italian … Shirei Israel be-Eretz Haqedem “Songs of Israel in the East,” together with Binyamin Bekhar Yossef (z”l) and Bekhor … precious recordings of Cordova’s voice have survived. At least two pieces sung by him appear in the old 78rpm …