From the margins to mainstream - this is how Mizrahi music has often been described. What reads as a story of revivalist success is, under close scrutiny, rather a story of complete social, linguistic and musical shift into an age … Continued

The representation of Jews and Judaism in al-Andalus: texts and contexts In al-Andalus (Muslim Iberia), the Jewish community flourished to the extent that their historical experience was labelled as a 'Golden Age' by 19th century European Jews who found in it a precedent to legitimize their insertion into the wider … Continued