Wasif Jawhariyyeh

Born in Jerusalem in 1897, he studied at Khalil al-Sakakini’s Constitutional School and learned the oud from Shaykh Umar al-Batsh of Aleppo; he played in several Jerusalem orchestras and worked as a clerk in the British administration. His memoirs, with seven volumes of photographs, record daily life in Jerusalem from the late Ottoman years to 1948, and his music notebooks inventory the popular music of Palestine in the early twentieth century. Forced from his city to Lebanon in 1948, he died in Beirut in 1973.

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