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Born in Izmir on April 24, 1889, Isaac Algazi was the son of Salomon Algazi and Sara Mizrahi. The family traced its origins back to Rabbi Salomon ben Abraham Algazi (ca. 1610–1683; see Algazi Family), and Isaac was the third in a line of cantors that began with his grandfather, Ḥayyim Menahem, and continued with his father, who was known as Bülbüli Salomon (Salomon the Nightingale). Isaac Algazi attended the local school of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, the Talmud Torah (religious school), and the Hillel Yeshiva under Rabbi Abraham Palache, Izmir’s haham başı (chief rabbi) and on…

Moshe Attias, the son of Yaʿaqov and Rina Attias (b. Meknes, 1937; d. Kiryat Ata, April 30, 2020), known as Cheikh Mwījo, was a composer, poet, singer and instrumentalist born and educated in Meknes.  One of the most authentic voices of Moroccan Jewry of his generation, he performed and recorded extensively secular and sacred songs in Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew. LifeMany Moroccan Jewish performing artists and composers could trace a musical ancestry back several generations. Mwijo was no exception;  both his grandfather and father, who hailed from Fez, had…