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Israel Festival Marked by Music and Dances of Ethnic Groups

The great diversity of Israel’s cultural richness was illustrated tonight at the annual Israel Festival, currently under way in the 2,000-year-old Roman amphitheater, at Caesaria, where “communities evening” was observed. The evening, devoted to the native music and dances of the various geographic and ethnic groups among Israel’s population, resulted in performances by Jews from […]

August 10, 1966
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The great diversity of Israel’s cultural richness was illustrated tonight at the annual Israel Festival, currently under way in the 2,000-year-old Roman amphitheater, at Caesaria, where “communities evening” was observed.

The evening, devoted to the native music and dances of the various geographic and ethnic groups among Israel’s population, resulted in performances by Jews from Iraq and Yemen, Bokhara and Kurdistan, North African regions and a half-dozen other origins. Yet all these groups showed, in common, that their cultures were rich with Jewish themes. In addition, Israeli Arabs also performed on tonight’s program, showing that an Israeli-Arab type of culture was being developed.

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