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The Role of Music in the Renewed Self-Identity of Karaite Jewish Refugee Communities from Cairo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Jehoash Hirshberg
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The process called by Karaite Jews from Cairo “Our twentieth century exodus” (El-Kodsi 1987: 294) was an extreme case of a refugee movement which culminated in the near-total displacement of an entire ethnic-religious community from its most important center. Throughout the ensuing process of individual resettlement and communal reorganization traditional music has played a significant role. This essay will consider the specific conditions both affecting music and affected by music throughout a generation of refugee movement.

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 21 , 1989 , pp. 36 - 56
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Copyright © 1989 by the International Council for Traditional Music

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