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Im tashiv (Qiddush shel Shabbat)
The sanctification (qiddush) of the Sabbath Day over the wine, a selection of Biblical…
Naqdishakh ve-na'aritzakh
The qeddushah is another liturgical text that receives special musical treatment in the…
Mizmor le-david (Psalm 29)
This is a rhythmicized example of the Hebrew psalmody used for the Sabbath eve (compare…
Shema' qoli
A famous baqqashah composed by R. Hai Gaon (d. 1038), one of the undisputed leaders of…
Mi hakham ve-yishmor eleh, Qaddish and Barekhu
This piece opens with the second half of the last verse of the special Psalm for Succoth…
Divre Yermiyahu (Jeremiah 1:1-9)
Melody for the haftarah (additional readings from the Prophets) on Shabbat Divre, one of…
Alekhem 'eda qedoshah
The qinnot (dirges) for the Ninth of Av, the Hebrew date marking the destruction of the…
Eikha yashvah badad (Lamentations 1:1-4 and 5:21)
During the services of the Ninth of Av, the Scroll of Ekha (Book of Lamentations) is…
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’…