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This dissertation examines the way that three romances have been adapted from their source texts in non-Jewish European languages to suit their target Jewish audiences. It begins with a summary of the issues at stake in the study of such romances: namely, what does it mean to Ju…

During the past century, the body of scholarship relevant to Jewish music has increased significantly. Information specific to the clarinet in Jewish music, however, has been minimal, consisting primarily of brief commentaries found in ethnomusicological research At the time of …

There are two temporally differentiated sources of information about Jews, no longer present in southern rural Moroccan communities, and the question is: which factor is paramount in the formation of memory? Is it the long-circulated narratives of shared life experiences between…