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Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… them some of the outstanding cantors and payytanim of that community. The Aleppo community possessed a distinctive tradition of religious …
Hasidism
… the zaddik is generally a central gathering place for the community where holidays, life-cycle events and communal …
Amidah
… was added in order to insure that uneducated members of the community could still fulfill their duty by listening to the …
Im nin'alu
… which was popularized by Bracha Zefira among the Jewish community of Palestine. It is sung in a responsorial manner: …
Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… as hazzan (cantor) of the flourishing Portuguese Jewish community. In this city, he taught the Oriental Sephardi …
Mi-al har horev from the manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte
… settled in Egypt, as a member of the thriving Jewish community situated there, and wrote his memoirs. The …
Selihot according to Siftei renanot
… was already established in Talmudic times. Each Jewish community developed a specific mode of Selihot and its own …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… speaking Jews. The old traditional Ottoman Jewish community ruled by rabbinical authority was shattered by …
Hanukah Blessings
… patterns. Yet, when the lighting of the candles occurred in community contexts, special musical settings were arranged. …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… as an order according to the order and tradition of the community of Niren Burg that they had from times immemorial … he reflects his upbringing in the Victorian British Jewish community in which the lines separating Ashkenazi and …