Inventing Jewish Music
https://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/01%20E%20Inventing%20Jewish%20Music%20-%20Phillip%20V%20Bohlman%2033-74%20with%20title%20p.pdf
Some scientific enterprises, like good wine, mature over a long period of time. The present publication, dating back to 1986, is the result of a similarly deliberate and painstaking process, and in view of the fact that it was undertaken with French colleagues, the wine metaphor is a most natural fit.
Directed by John Ferno
This film, narrated by Laurence Olivier, contains performances of both secular and religious music in Israel. This includes praying at the Western Wall, a Jazz version of the Song of Songs, an Upsherin (the ceremonial first haircut when a boy is three years old) ceremony with dancing and singing, and lighting of Hannuka candles in different traditions such as, Persian, Yemenite, and secular.A study of the role of music among the civilizations of the ancient Near East.