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Judeo-Spanish Traditions in Transition
… Program) Chair: Karen Gerson Sarhon Susana Weich-Shahak, Jewish Music Research Centre, Hebrew University of Jerusalem … repertoire could now also be explored by musicians from non-Sephardic backgrounds. Judith R. Cohen, York University, … as they call themselves, is somewhat different. Many more people have visited both the emblematic community of …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … of the exiled ones” with its mixture of [music from the] peoples within which [Jews] dwelled and to introduce instead … Geshuri also published many essays on the music of the Sephardic and Oriental Jews (especially on the Jews of …
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… the old city walls and built a new home across from the Sephardic Synagogue in the newly established neighborhood of … to be cooked in the Mizrahi oven. From an early age, people in the community took notice of Asher Mizrahi’s … and Sara. During the Balkan War (1912-1913), many young Jewish residents of Jerusalem fled the city or hid in order …
Elio Piattelli
… from the oral traditions of the various rites of the Roman Jewish community as well as original compositions for … Sephardi), Piedmont (Apam, Italian, Ashkenazi), Florence (Sephardic), and northeastern Italy (Italian, Sephardi, … 5743' (terrorist attack which also injured another forty people). In the large square in front of the main entrance …

Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… 17, 1859. His father, Rabbi Eliyahu Navon, was one of the Jewish intellectuals and public figures in Adrianpole, a … until WWI, one of the most prosperous communities of Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman Empire. The scholars of … were the foremost Sephardic intellectuals of the time, people such as Rabbi Baruch Ben Yitzchak Metani (BNYM), and …
Nikolai Kaufman
… unfailing efforts to the documentation and study of the Jewish traditions of Bulgaria. Although his publications on … about the songs of this relatively small group of people (compared to the Sephardic community). (Kaufman 1990: 197). As part of the …