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Thesaurus of Hebrew-Oriental Melodies: Songs of the Yemenite Jews
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A systematic collection of the traditional songs of Oriental Jews is of great importance, both for the elucidation of the vocal music used in synagogues and for the study of the origins of…

Contributor:

Avraham Tsvi Idelsohn

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1914

Subjects:

Music, Education, Jewish languages, Mizrahi

Categories:

Performing Arts, Music
Letters to the Central Committee of the Alliance Israélite Universelle from Tangier, Morocco; Sousse, Tunisia; and Tunis, Tunisia
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Tunis, November 1920Zionism still continues to make progress in Tunisia. In all the major cities of the Regency, Zionist committees have already been established. In Tunis itself there are three…

Contributor:

Alliance Israélite Universelle

Places:

Tunis, French Protectorate of Tunisia (Tunis, Tunisia)
Tangier, French Protectorate in Morocco (Tangier, Morocco)

Date:

1920–1938

Subjects:

Zionism, Mizrahi, Sephardic, Education, Antisemitism

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters, Reportage
War Journals: Diary of a Jewish Chaplain from Eretz-Israel in the British Army
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Today I returned from my trip to Tunis, and I will start to record what I witnessed, heard, and felt. On Thursday, 15 Iyyar (May 20, 1943), I left Tripoli. [ . . . ] On that day…

Contributor:

Ephraim E. Urbach

Places:

Tripoli, Libya

Date:

1943

Subjects:

Jewelry, Mizrahi, Education, Jewish identity, War

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, History, Historical Writing