Silver, who is Jewish but grew up in Los Angeles without a strong Jewish identity, went to college at the University of California, Berkeley. There he learned about the history of Jewish North Africa. After graduating and before he became a collector of records, Silver was traveling in Morocco and contemplating a career in academia. “Here we have a history of North African Jews in their own words in Arabic through the music, which is traditional and popular and everything in between,” Silver said. That’s my Baby.”Or, take the music that Tunisian Jewish star Habiba Msika recorded in the late 1920s in Berlin.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 18, 2021 20:37 UTC