Yuval

This special collection of studies is dedicated to Prof. Israel Adler, the founder of the Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. It includes a variety of articles on diverse issues related to different Jewish musical cultures. General topics such as the problematic and the development of the concept of Jewish music are discussed in this volume amid specific articles on Ashkenazi and Sephardi liturgical music, kabbalistic writings on music, Jewish composers and performers, the presence of non-Jewish music genres in Jewish musical cultures and more.