… the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a child in Baghdad’s school for blind Jewish … in the 1920s and many of the students who showed musical talent were taught to become musicians in order to … maqam to the cosmopolitan Egyptian-styled tarab along with classical Western music repertoire arranged for qanun. He …

… Prof. Seroussi offers a master class on contemporary Jewish music scholarship and methodology.    … Chanukkah … Hanukkah …

… - Ladino … Ladino Songs … Ottoman Empire … Sephardic music … Salonica … Saloniki … Thessaloniki … Eastern …

… - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … in Berlin and Dresden opened before him the world of classical Western music. One of his very early articles in … canon (Felix Mendelssohn and Anton Rubinstein) and to classical music performance during his own period. At the …

… memory: (translated from Hebrew) '... Efraim, unlike the classical historian, did not look for a history only in old … and especially recruited people on the subject of the music of the Jews of southern Yemen ... '.   Sources (in …

… on March 22, 1928 as Yehudah Leib Kirzner. He began his music studies as a child with his father, Yaakov, who was a … (father) and Eduardo Bonessi , two distinguished musicians from the tango scene. He carried out his first public musical performances in the modern orthodox Great Temple on …

… at Beth El Temple, he continued to appear in concerts of classical music, record commercial records and tour throughout … the porous line separating secular from the religious musical practices led by great cantors of the time such as …