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Simon Shaheen
Simon Shaeen is a Palestinian- American oud and violin player and composer.
Full…
Albert Elias
Elias was a virtuoso nay player, composer and instrument maker. In Baghdad Elias studied…
Ezra Aharon ("Azuri")
Ezra Aharon ('Azuri') (Bhagdad, 1903 – 1995, immigrated to Israel in 1935) was…
David Menahem
Rabbi David Menachem was born in 1980 to a family who immigrated from Iraq in the 1950s…
Ofer Ronen
Ofer Ronen was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, and at a young age moved to the northern…
Moshe Attias
The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent passing of Cheikh…
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
Introduction
It is November 15, 2016 and I am sitting in a car, driving on a mountain…
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the…
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
This is a short extract of the article “Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan…
Yaqub Murad al-‘Amari (aka Yaqub Bar-Nay)
Murad was a multi-instrumentalist employed by the Iraqi Broadcasting Ensemble in Baghdad…