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Johanna L. Spector
… of different Jewish musical cultures, including music from Iraqi, Persian, Yemenite, and Indian cultures. She …
Salah El Kuweiti
… Iraqi composer and violinist, Salah El Kuweiti was born to Iraqi parents in Kuwait, and taken to Iraq when he was 17. He played violin, sang, composed, and …
Yinam Leef
… trio, was a set of variations on a melody of the Jews of Iraq, and pointed on an artistic direction that combines …
Ezra Aharon ("Azuri")
… of Arab art music. He was student of Tanburi Ibrahim Bey in Iraq and was recording both Iraqi and Egyptian styles by 1929. He was the prizewinner … Congress of Oriental Music, Cairo. Aharon immigrated from Iraq to Israel in 1935 and developed ‘Oriental’ styles in …
David Menahem
… Menachem was born in 1980 to a family who immigrated from Iraq in the 1950s. His maternal grandfather, Rabbi Gurje … Yair, was an educator and one of the greatest cantors of Iraq. As a child, he grew up in Jerusalem and absorbed the … with pursuing his Torah studies, he has performed with Iraqi musicians, members of the Voice of Israel in the …
Amnon Shiloah
… the study of Judeo-Arabic and Sephardic traditions in Iraq and Morocco as well as to the study of Arabic music …