New Books in the Center's Library

Geula Elimelech




Avishur Yitzhak, "Shirat Hagvarim" (Men's Folk Songs), Or-Yehuda, Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center, 1994

This book incldues a selection of more then 3,000 songs thet were sung by the male Jews of Iraq over the past 200 years. The songs were selected from manuscripts of the 19th Century and from records. The male songs of the Jews of Iraq were not only liturgical works sung in Hebrew but include also Arabic songs thet have strictly secular meaning. It should be noted thet this book parallels a similar work "Song of the Women" thet Professor Avishur published in 1987.



"MINHAT ASHUR" A magazine for culture and society, Tirat Hacarmel Center for Jews of Mosul, Tishrei 5755, September 1994.

This is the sixth issue of the magazine which is published by the Tirat Hacarmel Center for Jews of Mosul and edited by Zakai Binyamin Aharon.