… Pincas Thomashefsky, was born in Tarasche, a small town near Kiev, Ukraine in 1868. He immigrated to the United … Thomashefsky joined a Synagogue chorister on the Lower East Side, which brought him in contact with Synagogue … became a partner at the People’s Theater on the Lower East Side along with famed actor and producer Jacob P. …

… Press, … יובל - קובץ מחקרים … Music in Antiquity - The Near East and the Mediterranean … 8 … 2014 … Joan Goodnick …

… and better documented one in the Sephardi repertoire, East and West. The myth that this is the very same melody …

Hesqil Kassab was one of the most famous Iraqi maqam reciters in the twentieth…

… one of the finest players of this instrument in the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a child …

… is the presence of an institutionalized  choir , at least in the form of a small group of proficient singers … When the lead in  piyyut  composition passes from the Near East to Spain, the solo-and-choir structures are not taken …

… and Yom Tov's hymns from my father, and the sounds of the East that came from the Arab cafes near our house.' His father hoped he would be a cantor. …

… traditions in the greater Mediterranean and Middle-Eastern world, became blended to a degree with local …

Documentary. Yiddish and Hebrew w/ English subtitles. 53 min. Too Early To Be Quiet,…

… also in the Yemenite rite where it has been found since at least the early eighteenth century (see, manuscript Berlin - … is that this Western Ashkenazi source apparently moved eastwards, as it contains many Eastern Ashkenazi texts added later in its margins. Through …