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Yigdal for the Last Evening of Pesah: Two Version

See the biography of James Levy.

Yigdal for the Second Evening of Pesah

Only sung on the second night of Pesah, in commemoration of the great storm which hit…

Ki Eshmera Shabbat: Three Versions

See the biography of James Levy.

… The musical lore of James Levy's family has deep roots in … Congregación Israelita Latina of Buenos Aires in 1891 ( The Jewish Presence in Latin America ). He also composed liturgical music. Following his father's death, Samuel moved to …

Mapping of German Liturgical Music

… The Jewish Music Research Centre is proud to present a map of all known and available printed sources of liturgical music form the German-speaking Jewish world. This map derives from the online data base …

Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire

… 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared … the special favor of the Duke who allowed her, as the only Jewish pupil, to visit his German primary school. All her …

A Recovered Voice from the Past

… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … and saints, or Leidensgeschichte and Geistesgeschichte . Jewish Studies in this formulation consisted of the … in the Jewish past. A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern …