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Mi-al har horev from the manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte
… double acrostic form, the research group suggested that the author of the fragment was an 11th-century poet by the name … wrote his memoirs. The discovery of Obadiah the Proselyte's authorship essentially solved the mystery of the rare …
Prayer for the state
… of the government; for were it not for the fear of its authority, a man would swallow his neighbor alive.“ (Avot … development of Hebrew prayers for the government and the authorship of the “Prayer for the Well-being of the Stated … Gurion, the Chief Rabbis Herzog and Uziel, and many other authorities of the young state. Performing was Hazzan Israel …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… rare recordings of Ashkenazi melodies for this piyyut. The author’s first name – Solomon – surfaces in the acrostic, and its authorship was variously attributed to Solomon bar Abun, …
Adon Olam
… eternity and unity of God. The date of composition and author of this hymn are unknown, though some attribute it to …
Akdamut millin
… lines which spell out a double alphabet as well as the author’s name, Rabbi Meir Issac Nehroai. This poem is only …
Eli Ziyyon
… the Middle Ages, but the exact date of composition and author are unknown. The elegy consists of twelve stanzas, …
Lekha Dodi
… consists of nine acrostic stanzas which spell the name of author Solomon ha-Levi, a kabbalist living in Tzfat in the …
Diwan
… Diwan meant exclusively a collection of poems by a single author. Today however, the term refers to an anthology of poems by a number of authors. The Diwan of the Jews of Yemen is a paraliturgical … century onward by the addition of poems by Yemenite authors, and at this stage it began to be copied and bound …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… in use in the court music of the Ottoman Empire during the author’s lifetime. Moreover, the lehanim (plural of lahan, … (16th and 17th centuries); and piyyutim of later local authors (from the 18th to the 20th centuries), including … rabbinical figures from Aleppo. The identity of some of the authors is unknown. In alphabetical order, the known authors …
Viktor Ullmann. A brief biography and appreciation
… Oct. 1944 Ullmann was sent to his death in Auschwitz. The author discusses, on the basis of his writings, Ullmann's … personal experiences as a pupil of Ullmann's from 1933-38. (Author, abridged) … 2 … 3 … …