Editing Safed (section)

== Culture ==
[[File:Blue door in Beit Castel gallery, Safed, Israel.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|[[Beit Castel]] gallery in the artists' colony]]

=== Artists' colony ===
{{main|Artists Quarter of Safed}}

In the 1950s and 1960s, Safed was known as Israel's art capital. An artists' colony established in the old Arab quarter was a hub of creativity that drew artists from around the country, among them [[Yitzhak Frenkel]], [[Yosl Bergner]], [[Moshe Castel]], Menachem Shemi, [[Shimshon Holzman]] and [[Rolly Schaffer]].

In honor of the opening of the Glitzenstein Art Museum in 1953, the artist [[Mane Katz]] donated eight of his paintings to the city. Today the area contains a large number of galleries and workshops run by individual artists and art vendors. There are several museums and galleries that function in the historical homes of major Israeli artists such as the [[Frenkel Frenel Museum]] and the [[Beit Castel]] gallery (in [[Moshe Castel]]'s former home).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hectorbarel.wixsite.com/beitcastel|title=Paintings {{!}} Moshe Castel Gallery {{!}} Israel|website=Moshecastelgallery|language=en|access-date=2019-08-12|archive-date=2019-08-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190812071258/https://hectorbarel.wixsite.com/beitcastel|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=https://www.frenkel-frenel.org/The_official_Isaac_Frenkel-Frenel_web_site/Welcome.html|title=FRENKEL FRENEL MUSEUM|website=www.frenkel-frenel.org|access-date=2019-08-10}}</ref><ref name="ITN">Israel Travel News, ''Spotlight – A Spiritual Journey of Safed'' [http://itn.co.il/news/updates/spotlight-a-spiritual-journey-of-safed/ access date: 24/1/2018]</ref>

=== Music ===
In the 1960s, Safed was home to the country's top nightclubs, hosting the debut performances of [[Naomi Shemer]], [[Aris San]], and other singers.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.5038830|title=An Inside Job?|newspaper=[[Haaretz]]|author=Ashkenazi, Eli|access-date=2008-10-25}}</ref> Nowadays, 
Safed has been hailed as the [[klezmer]] capital of the world, hosting an annual Klezmer Festival that attracts top musicians from around the globe.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.safed-home.com/KlezmerFestivalofSafed.html |title = Klezmer Festival 2019 in Safed}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Davis |first=Barry |url=http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1249418567163 |title=You can take the music out of the shtetl |publisher=Fr.jpost.com |date=2009-08-10 |access-date=2012-01-07}}</ref> A school of world music, especially eastern music called Maqamat operates in the [[Artists Quarter of Safed|Artists' Quarter of Safed]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Maqamat School of Eastern Music - WOMEX |url=https://www.womex.com/virtual/maqamat_school_of |access-date=2023-12-27 |website=www.womex.com}}</ref>

=== Museums ===
*The Beit Hameiri museum documents Safed's Jewish community over the past 200 years.
*The Museum of the Art of Printing displays the first Hebrew printing press.