Naomi Shemer was a prolific singer and composer who built a unified Israeli cultural…

… ô t . The opening is usually eulogistic - in praise of the God of Israel or the guest of honour. There follow …

Songs of longing for Jerusalem, such as this copla, used to be sung on the night of the…

This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…

… have survived: “Memorial Hymn” (1895) and “Day of God” (1898). Stark was aligned with the South German …

Ezra Aharon (composer, singer, ud) and Mounira Hawazwaz perform the Iraqi dialogue…

Ezra Aharon (composer, singer, ud) and Mounira Hawazwaz perform the Iraqi dialogue…

… Exhausted by the arguing, Nimrod throws Abraham into his god, the fire but God saves Abraham. This and other Jewish sources may account … the kid to the Jewish people, the father who bought it to God, and the other characters to nations who conquered …

… “the realm between religion and show business as well as God and the congregation.” 3 To be sure this phenomenon … the episode on Jewish music on the Canadian television show God's Greatest Hits, SoCalled gave a brief biographical … Music 37 (Fall 2012): 173-86.  Shandler, Jeffrey.   Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America ,   New …

This is a romance formulated in the first person, interspersed by expressions of grief…