… important role in the dissemination in Western Europe and North Africa of the “new” style of religious Hebrew song … text displays the history of the injunction imposed on the Jews of Persia and their salvation by Esther and Mordecai, … were adapted to “Purim, Purim, Purim lanu” by the Jews of North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. The present …

… to the early dissemination in Western Sephardic and North African Jewish communities of the new style of religious … in “Imrei no’am,” recounts the injunction imposed on the Jews of Persia and their salvation by Esther and Mordecai, …

… This CD is dedicated to piyutim (sung sacred poetry) of the Jews of the Tafilalt (Berb. Tāfīlālt) region, in particular …

… 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 …

… Alter. In addition, Léibele was also cantor at the Polish Jews’ Brit Abraham Synagogue (known as “Shil de Antezana”, … liturgical repertoire shows his deep connection to the North American and European scenes of cantorial art during …

… cross-cultural interactions characteristic of modern North African Jewish music. The other side of our record contains … song, La’ad aromimkha malki . Crossing boundaries between Jews and Muslims, between Jews from the Eastern and Western …

… so for that matter, Judeo-Christians. In fact they were Jews who believed and followed Jesus’s messianism but …

… 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: …

… 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 …

… 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 ( …