El norah 'alilah (Florence)

Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961)
Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961)
El norah 'alilah (Florence)

Umberto Genazzani, Leo Levi 


Poem by Moshe ibn 'Ezra (ca. 1055-after 1135) for the Ne'ilah (Closing Service) of Yom Kippur. This melody is from Livorno spread to Sephardi communities (including Florence, as this track demonstrates) and others in Italy. 

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