A Moroccan Synagogue Service
This is a short extract of the article “…
Revisiting a Forgotten Treasure in Philadelphia
The library of Gratz College is very well known among scholars and collectors of Jewish music for its rich musical…
The Liturgical Music of the Provencal Jews (old Comtat Venaissin)
On the occasion of the renewed interest on the opera “Esther de Carpentras” by French Jewish composer…
Sonic Ruins: Accessory Images for Book
This page contains complementary resources for Sonic Ruins of Modernity: Judeo-Spanish Folksongs…
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
On March 15, 1899, the distinguished scholar, cantor, composer and avid manuscript collector Eduard Birnbaum of Königsberg published a short…
Music, Muslims and Jews
With the rise of Islam and the expanding Arab conquests throughout the Middle East, North Africa and Spain, the…
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
In 1979 Esther Warkov, a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the…
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
Revised and annotated translation from the French by Edwin Seroussi
A Liturgy within the Liturgy: The German Torah Service in Past and Present
Europäisches Zentrum für Jüdische Musik (EZJM) at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hannover (HMTMH)
Salamone Rossi’s HaShirim Asher LiShlomo in its Fourth Centennial (5383-5783)
Even if you are mildly interested in Jewish music, you cannot avoid…
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
I spent the summer of 1989 living in a Nazareth Illit (today Nof HaGalil) neighborhood largely populated by new immigrants from Ethiopia, and…