Writings

I was in my early twenties. I was a “world music” student at a young university in Canada. We had the opportunity to study both...

My wife Mira and I have been living in Ein Kerem for the last month. It is an ancient village, thousands of years old and its stone...

People do not usually come to Jerusalem for the music although there is much music here. Many visitors, whether they be Jews, Christians...

Max Weber’s classic sociological study,  The Protestant Ethic, and the Spirit of Capitalism,   is still read today by serious students of...

The academic field called ethnomusicology aspires to encompass the comparative study of the world’s music, both present and past, defined...

Canadian Jewish composer and friend of Israel Ben Steinberg has passed away. I wanted him to live to be a hundred, even more. But that...