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Uncle Moses
Directed by Sidney Goldin and Aubrey Scotto
This 1932 film, based on Shalom Asch's…
Romanza - Romance
A unique genre in the Sephardic Jews musical tradition. A narrative poem, a ballad,…
István Anhalt
Istavan Anhalt was born in Budapest, Hungary, where he studied composition with Kodály…
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
In 1958, on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk…
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
If you have ever searched for Hatikvah online, you were surely exposed to a barrage of…
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac,…
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity. New York: Routledge, 2017…
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
This is a short extract of the article “Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan…
64. El mancebo seboso + La fea y el viejo (La novia exigente) + Las camas altas (Sida Musafija)
A song of the şarki type combining various themes, all of them of serial structure, sung…
'Et sha'are ratzon
These are the first and last strophes of one of the most remarkable medieval Hebrew…