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Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography

… … But the community underwent (and still does) a hard landing in Israel. In 1989 most of the immigrants had … members were not only a means of commemorating the highlands of Ethiopia, but of negotiating daily life in Israel …

German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections

… eastwards, from the Baltic to the Black Seas via Congress Poland, Galicia and Hungary and westwards, to the Americas. …

Samy’s Boys in Concert in the early 1950s (Courtesy of Yolande Amzallag, Foundation Samy Elmaghribi)

Music, Muslims and Jews

… of the Jews of Antiquity found themselves living in lands where Arab and Persian cultures and languages predominated. Jews of these lands absorbed, integrated with and contributed to Arab, … new enterprises. (Project cover image is by courtesy of Yolande Amzallag, Foundation Samy Elmaghribi) … Fog al-Nakhal …

Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited

… in the early 1950s, part of the Jewish exodus from Arab lands, which had become largely inhospitable to Jewish …

Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)

… attribution to its author have ranged from the New England Conservatory in Boston to a singer in from Venezuela , …

Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius

… and a journalistic rehash of the legends by Michael Freedland (1974) the songwriter’s major biographies had to wait … is an issue which Kaplan does not investigate, and indeed blandly sidesteps, in his enthusiasm for his subject. At his … He married a Catholic and brought up his children in a blandly Christian tradition. A clear hint is that virtually …