… Sephardic communities, emphasizing Spanish-Portuguese and North African versions in the article entitled  “Songs of Grief … maqam-oriented school of the Ades Synagogue of the Aleppan Jews. For many years, Nehemiah was cantor and preacher at …

… of Turin Knowledge of the musical traditions of the Jews in Italy, who followed a variety of liturgical minhagim … on the heritage of the Italian, Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews who settled in the Italian Peninsula, is still at a … own research on sonic encounters of Jews and Christians in North Western Europe since the time of the crusades, this …

… It is performed by Sephardic and Eastern (Oriental) Jews in a variety of melodies and textual variations.   Text … this melody was found in Gardaya, Algeria (see below).     North African Traditions   The song has a number of North African …

… roughly 1200 students, were Jewish. This was at a time when Jews formed roughly four percent of the total Russian … rest of the Russian educational world strenuously denied Jews entry, Russia’s greatest musical academy welcomed them … in large part to the shared obsession of Russians and Jews with the dramatic spectacle of Jewish musicians at the …

… in the sixteenth century that continues amongst Syrian Jews today (Kligman 2009; Shelemay 1998). “ Yom Yom Odeh ” … in 1948 gave rise to the en masse migration of Jews from North Africa and the Near East, thereby dislocating almost the …

… Peninsula, just two centuries after the expulsion of Jews from Spain and Portugal. This distinctive community … between the traditions of Western Europe and those of North Africa. In a recent study conducted by Ariel Lazarus ( see …

… (b. 1930 in Buenos Aires), scion to a family from Stawiski (northeast Poland, near Bialystok), refers in this excerpt to … of the Haggadah in Arabic…and they were Hassidic Ashkenazi Jews born in Israel. This means that Goelman’s inquiry had a … אִילַּה הוּא! To briefly illustrate one of the North African versions of “Ehad mi yode’a” in Judeo-Arabic, here …

… Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German … and early British Palestine, Lithuanian Jewish South Africa, and Midwestern American Reform Judaism. What is … central Jerusalem founded in 1905, bordered by Geula to the north, Mekor Baruch to the west, David Yellin Street to the …

… of watching your back. While at the same time, today in North America, assimilating. […] I am thinking about the … Gendered Hebrew Teacher Tells All.' In Queer Jews . Ed. Shneer, David and Caryn Aviv. New York: …

… remained in possession of the family’s heirs in South Africa. It was digitized on our behalf by Idelsohn’s … Mažeikiai], Semogalen [i.e in the district of Samogitian in northwestern Lithuania] who had to give up his trade and … Upon Zangwill’s question, how can I return to Russia, where Jews are so maltreated, I answered that I prefer to be with …