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Elohim Eshala

… and the congregation answers with the second hemistich. The author of Elohim Eshala is Yosef Ben Yisrael, a relative of …

… do you know how many men live in a house?” asked Yiddish author Y.L. Peretz. “Count the fiddles hanging on the wall … a character that typifies Jewish Klezmer music. The Yiddish author Shalom Aleichem vividly describes this character in … Intimate Music and reprinted here with permission from the author. Additional resources on the Society for Jewish …

Seliha-Selihot

… Ibn Ghayyat (Lucena, Al-Andalus, 1038-1089), a halakhic authority, Biblical commentator and poet, this Iberian order …

Admor

… The rabbi is the religious leader of the community and his authority is expressed in matters connected to Jewish law … school) is also a teacher and deals with education. The authority of the H assidic Admor, on the other hand, comes … assidim for generations. Most importantly, he receives his authority from the place of the Tsadik in the H assidic …

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In Ale Gasn\ Hey Hey Daloy Politsey

… by Zalman Mlotek, musician, conductor, arranger and an authority in Yiddish folk and theater music. Mlotek arranged …

Ner Haviv, Ner Na'eh

… it with an important twist: the identification of texts’ author and an additional musical version, very different … The text was written by the Polish-born Hebrew poet and author Sh. Shalom (pseudonym of Shalom Joseph Shapira; 1904–1990). The poem was titled by its author ('Under the light of the candle'). The song is an …

Shofet Kol Ha'aretz

… has fulfilled the function of sacrifice. The name of the author of Shofet kol ha’aretz, Salomon, surfaces from the … acrostic – Shlomo hazaq ve’ematz – and for this reason the authorship of the poem is usually attributed to Salomon Ibn … such as Leopold Zunz, have also suggested another possible author: Salomon bar Abun the young, (late twelfth century, …