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"Yashqef elohim mime'on qodsho" (God will look down from His holy dwelling)
Nashid by Yosef ben Israel signed Yehosef. The poem calls for the Lord to take vengeance…
"Levavi yahsheqa ‘ofra" (My heart yearns for a hart)
Shira with tawshiḥ by Shalem Shabazi, signed Alshabazi. Towards the end of the poem the…
"Barek brik alḥama" (The lightning of our protection shone forth)
A poem in Arabic by Yosef ben Israel, signed Ben Israel. The poem has eight stanzas,…
Yoel Greenberg
Yoel Greenberg is Emanuel Alexandre Chair of musicology and head of the Jewish Music…
Ya meḥayei alnafos (He who gives my spirit life)
Girdle poem in Arabic and Hebrew by Shalem Shalazi, signed Alshabazi Mashta. It…
Léibele Schwartz
Schwartz was born in Brod, Poland, on March 22, 1928 as Yehudah Leib Kirzner. He began…
"Sha'ali yefefiyah" (Ask, lovely one)
These two poems by Shelomo Ibn Gabirol are to be found in collections of sacred poems…
Pinchas Borenstein
Pinchas Borenstein was born in the small town of Jeziorna Królewska, a suburb of Warsaw…
Jacob Ben-Ami
Jacob Ben-Ami was born in 1890 in Minsk, Belarus. His early education took place in a…