Lugging heavy audio equipment, Magid traveled through parts of today’s Belarus and Ukraine (then territories of the Soviet Union) making wax cylinder recordings of Jewish folk music ...

Udi Raveh is the son of Ilka and Aviva Raveh, famous Israeli singers who were the pioneers of some of the first Israeli folk songs ... larger than life in both music, in overcoming injuries ...

The exception to this gross generalization is Israeli folk music. Searching for live folk music in Israel is difficult. As one Israeli explained to me, "All the good singers go to America to make ...

Folk dancing “played a role as both a political ... especially those choreographed to Israeli pop music, said Chen, the longtime dance teacher. Some have even applied Israeli dance moves to ...

The music of the Middle East has been influenced by many different religions and cultures. As well as the religious influences of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Druze, there are traces of ...

Peter Yarrow, one-third of the hit-making 1960s folk group ... he told the Jewish Post in an interview. “There was money for education of every sort. There was money for music lessons, summer ...