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Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)

… paragraphs. For the sake of consistency, we have rearranged the items according to musical traditions but …

Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong

… Texts , “Fog al-Nakhal,” N. Ghazali]. The musical arrangement is attributed to Nazem Naim and Jamil Bashir, …

Salim Shibith (Salim Ha-Cohen)

… traditional Iraqi repertoire. Fortunately, Israel Radio arranged for Shibith (among others) to record many Iraqi maqam …

Abraham Salman

… tarab along with classical Western music repertoire arranged for qanun. He also composed music for films and …

Ibn Danan Synagogue Fes Shutterstock photo

… cantor in fast tempo recitation within a narrow tonal range. Your browser does not support the audio element. … extremely fast non-metrical recitations on a very narrow range; 2) biblical cantillation with unclear beat and great contrast between fast recitation on a narrow range and lyrical isles of ornamented sound on a wider …

Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3

… this source) published the same Chabad nign in his own arrangement for piano (see the third image in Figure 8). … of the twentieth century, such as Beimel and Nadel, arranged and published in the pages of his journal. Winz's … alive”) for the High Holydays 5536 (1976) produced and arranged by Gil Aldema. From the Treasures of the Archive of …

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

Music, Muslims and Jews

… to digital means of communication capable of surmounting estrangement. Music and music making was an area of cultural …

Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity

… and distributers. In great public expressions of this strange Jewish self-exclusion (such as the famous plot of The … it as the music of a people other than themselves? What a strange and counterfactual conceit. Looking over the enormous … undergone conversions to Blackness. This is famously the strange case of clarinetist and saxophonist Mezz Mezzrow, a …