… to his academic studies, he studied halakha with two of the greatest rabbis of Yemeni Jewry in Israel: Mary Yosef Kapach … of the Hida (R. Chaim Yosef David Azulay), one of the greatest rabbinic authority in Jerusalem at the end of the … himself as documenting a world that has disappeared, with a great deal of justice. A degree of sadness is cast on his …

… he was 17. He played violin, sang, composed, and achieved great musical fame in Iraq together with his brother, Daoud, … his own arrangements of the music of his grandfather and great-uncle (2011).   Selected Recordings: Maqam Rast for …

… Song produced on behalf of the board of Jewish Education of Greater Chicago. Levin writes that the LP was intended … joins Belarsky in the singing of the third stanza. The great American Jewish pianist and composer of Russian origin … lasted? If in the land of pyramids There had not been a great hero, Who fought for all the Jews With his wisdom and …

… Roberta.  The opening cast included musical theater greats such as Bob Hope, Sydney Greenstreet, and George …

… of Salomon Sulzer at the Seitenshteten Temple. Singer was greatly impressed by the young man’s talent and helped to … top to bottom. The crowds which remained outside were even greater; men and women, young and old who tried without success to get in to hear the concert by this great tenor and the choir under the direction of Herr Low. …

… Ben Yisrael, a relative of Shalom (or Shalem) Shabazi the greatest seventeenth-century Yemenite Jewish poet.   … of the Yemenite Jewish melodies as surviving specimens of great antiquity, going back (in the minds of romantic …

… The wedding guests are amused by this dance, but it is a great strain on the bride. Weakened by fasting the entire …