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Esther
… on Purim and recounts the story of the salvation of the Jews of the Persian Empire. Esther is the fifth of the five …
Kolomeyke (LKT)
… tunes of non-Jewish origin played by klezmorim for non-Jews, and also, at times, for Jews within a limited geographical region (such as the …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… prayer books even before the final expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. Moreover, nocturnal study and … sung are borrowed from the musical culture of the Sephardi Jews of Spain (tunes of Judeo-Spanish songs) and of the … as the basis of the religious music of the Sephardi Jews in the Ottoman Empire, from the sixteenth century until …
Im nin'alu
… one of the most popular and widely known among the Yemenite Jews. It is sung on many different occasions, at weddings …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… Melodies of the Liturgy of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews. London, 1857. Shofet kol ha’aretz is a piyyut for Rosh …
Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… text displays the history of the injunction imposed on the Jews of Persia and their salvation by Esther and Mordecai, … melodies were adapted to “Purim, Purim, Purim lanu” by the Jews of North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. The … It was recorded by Abraham Zvi Idelsohn among the Bukharian Jews who settled in Jerusalem around the beginning of the …
Prayer for the state
… of the State of Israel in 1948, the ancient prayers that Jews recited for the well-being of the government under …
Selihot according to Siftei renanot
… Yom Kippur became the custom of the Sephardic and Oriental Jews until the present. In these communities, the selihot … Preservation and Diffusion of the Heritage of the Libyan Jews, 2007). The second version is an adaptation of the …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… transition in the history of the Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old traditional Ottoman Jewish community ruled by …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… period, apparently predating its use among Sephardic Jews. Manuscript 85 of the Archivio Storico Comunale of … fragments from an order of Selihot of the Ashkenazi Jews in Italy, dated to the 13 th or 14 th century (IMHM, PH …