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Raza Deshabbat
Raza Deshabbat is the second part of a kabbalist Aramaic text that begins with the words…
Eileh Toldot Noah
This is a comical song about Noah, hero of the Biblical Great Flood, and his fondness…
Isaac Levy
Isaac Levy was born in Manisa near Izmir to a Sephardic Jewish family. At the age of…
Lekha dodi
Kabbalat shabbat ("Welcoming of the Sabbath"), a ritual developed by the kabbalists of…
Keter
The qeddushah for the Mussaf (Additional) Service of the Sabbath is, like its…
Berukhim atem qehal emmunai
An old Sephardi piyyut for circumcision, it is sung by the congregation as the child to…
A Recovered Voice from the Past
Preface
The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German…
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
This document, in the form of a synoptic table, incorporates three versions of Idelsohn’…
James Levy
The musical lore of James Levy's family has deep roots in Gibraltar. Toward the end of…
Revisiting a Forgotten Treasure in Philadelphia
The library of Gratz College is very well known among scholars and collectors of Jewish…