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January 30, 2026

Sephardi Melodies and Yemenite Songs in a Bavarian Key Come to London

Along with the work of the Czech Jew who helped create the music of Bollywood.

In London this Sunday, there will be a concert featuring the music of Jewish composers who were forced into exile by the vicissitudes of the 20th century. Some, like the Polish-born Jerzy Fitelberg, have fallen unjustly into obscurity; others are better known. While, as Mark Glanville notes, many great Jewish composers “had little or no connection to their Jewishness, were frequently converts to Christianity, and fully identified with the German, Czech, or Polish cultures in which they had been raised,” this isn’t true across the board: 

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