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Moshe Attias
The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent passing of Cheikh…
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics:…
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
In 1979 Esther Warkov, a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel…
Yaqub Murad al-‘Amari (aka Yaqub Bar-Nay)
Murad was a multi-instrumentalist employed by the Iraqi Broadcasting Ensemble in Baghdad…
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…
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
This document, in the form of a synoptic table, incorporates three versions of Idelsohn’…