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Daniel Osborn was raised in an interfaith home, and when he became a father, he wanted to instill in his son an affinity for cultural exchange. He built reminders of Jewish and Arabic values into their daily routines.
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Siblings Yoni and Sivan Battat discuss how collaborating on the former's music album became a means of reconnecting with their Iraqi family and heritage, and of disentangling Mizrahiness from Israeliness.
Yoni Battat is multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and composer. He spent most of the last year performing as a musician, singer, and actor with the national tour of The Band’s Visit. Besides playing Arab and Jewish-Middle Eastern music, he also has recorded and performed Ashkenazi and Yiddish music with his band Two Shekel Swing. He is now studying Arabic language and music in Israel-Palestine as a Dorot Fellow.