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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 …
Bin Tavinu Liqnot Bina Ha'azinu
… poet and a composer, was born to a distinguished family of Jews from Spain. He lived and worked in Damascus, Safed, and … from the research of the oral tradition of the Sephardic Jews of the Eastern Mediterranean. Afterwards, the … of this song in Ladino have survived among the Sephardic Jews, but only one, originating in Bulgaria, survived with …
Musical Traditions of the Ethiopian Jews
… The dramatic immigration of the Ethiopian Jews from their country of origin to Israel in the 1980’s … religious and secular musical repertoires of Ethiopian Jews. The present page directs you to projects on this topic … in detail the liturgy of Beta Israel (as the Ethiopian Jews refer to their community) for future generations. Our …
Hayrana Laih
… in the website of the Historical Association of Egyptian Jews that is based on information provided by the composer’s … and turbulent period in the history of Egypt and its Jews. Their story shows the extent of integration of many Jews and Karaites into the Egyptian social fabric, most …