… returned to New York in 1903, where he spent the last five years of his life involved in promoting the growing culture …

… in Hebrew with Zaarur’s daughter ), when Yossef was eight years old and had become passionate about music, he tried to … violin, and cello. Family lore has it that at twenty years of age Zaarur even opened a music school, where he … Zaarur, an unidentified Iraqi musician. During these same years, Zaarur met the rising stars of the Egyptian song, …

… to her, and her father died from typhus when she was three years old. After the death of her parents, she was brought … and Brakha's neighbors were from Persia. After three years, her adopted family left the city, and Brakha was … small amount of artists working in the field. Following two years of collaboration, Tzefira and Nardi were married, and …

… the face of new competition), the family settled for a few years in the adjacent Dańdówka, a small village with no … radio station received due scholarly attention in recent years ( Katz 2003 ; Davis 2013 ), Geshuri’s efforts in the … niggun. The kernel of his ideas maturated in the following years, including the war period, leading to the …

… bless the new moon each month, and every twenty-eight years the sun was blessed... In an earlier time people in …

… in Saloniki is essentially comprised of a few hundred vital years of cultural life, tragically bookended by the … the death-camps of the Nazis (1943). For over four-hundred years leading up to the Great Fire, Saloniki stood as a … that have been produced in the past twenty to twenty-five years. There are also a number of ethnographic recordings of …

… with Liadov that continued until the composer’s death years later. He recalled later how they spoke constantly of … between Russian Zionists and Bolshevik leaders. For years he championed a Hebrew revival in the Soviet Union and … Russian nationalism and Bolshevik Communism in the early years of the Soviet regime. Even the place of classical …