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Whether this year’s festival pans out that way will only transpire later this month. But, one thing is for sure, there is something for practically everyone in the offing right across the country.

60th year of annual Jerusalem event aims to break down walls between performers and audiences

IN 1935, a German ethnomusicologist named Robert Lachmann was fired from his library job and fled from the Nazis to Jerusalem. Born in Berlin to a Jewish family, he had learned to speak fluent Arabic as a young man and had begun to study the forms and structures of Arabic song while working as an interpreter for North African POWs during World War I. He later traveled to Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Egypt, conducting extensive fieldwork on secular and liturgical music while developing a wide a...

Jerusalem cultural center launches rich online offerings for Passover — and beyond March 16, 2021 12:53 pm As part of Beit Avi Chais online offerings, Israeli journalist Romy Neumark, center, narrates a series of short films on artistic works that bring Jewish holidays to light, including this painting by Marc Chagall at Israels Knesset. (Courtesy of Beit Avi Chai) Advertisement When Passover last year became the first Jewish holiday to take place since the World He...

Jewish musicians were mainstream hits in the Maghreb in the first half of the 20th century. Their records are endangered.