Polish cantor and composer. Abraham Ber Birnbaum was born to a Hassidic family in…

… (a source that comes  from the land of Israel) of the Eastern sound, but in fact his songs were based on three … materials of the different sects of Judaism from both east and west, such as Ta'amey HaMikra, H assidic melodies, …

Hazzan Ezra Barnea, was born in the Bukharian quarter of Jerusalem in 1935 to Rabbi…

Arvit is the last of the three daily services of the Jewish liturgy, along with Shaharit…

… in Europe and arrived in a desolate country in the Middle East, could feel themselves as the lonely traveler of this …

… Z ur Tune:  New Facts for its History, in Encounters of East and West in Music (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, …

… Holidays - Yamim Nora'im … Rosh HaShanah … Rosh Hashanah … Eastern Sephardi … Susana Weich-Shahak … 1. El Atán, el …

… and commercial recordings throughout the European, Middle Eastern and American Jewish diasporas, was a crucial … soul still yearns, And onward, towards the confines of the East, An eye still gazes toward Zion.   Our hope is not yet … collections of Hebrew religious poetry published in the Near East in the first three decades of the 20 th century. …

… was born (see Fränkel 1921) in the town of Jesberg near Kassel on March 14, 1841. However the Jewish …