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Lekha dodi
Kabbalat shabbat ("Welcoming of the Sabbath"), a ritual developed by the kabbalists of…
3. Hermanos mis queridos (Jacob Algava)
A song referring to the 1908 reenactment of the 1876 Ottoman constitution. It is an…
Alexander A. Krein
Alexander Krein was born in the Staraya Ruza region of Moscow in 1883. He and his five…
Israel Najara
Born in Eretz-Israel to a distinguished family of Jews from Spain. Najara lived and…
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… and most comprehensive printed anthologies of Hebrew sacred poems from Spain, Italy and the Ottoman territories, Shirim … Library of Israel, Heb. 4° 8660, a collection of Hebrew poems dated in 1899, mostly by R. Israel Najara , includes …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… its own recognizable melody that could be applied to other poems. The Ms. Heb. 7220 of the National Library of Israel …
Halleluya (Hallelujah)
A girdle poem in honor of the Sabbath, by Seʼadia, signed Se'adia. This is one of the…
6. Coplas de Hanukkah: Dak Il Tas, Toma El Tas
This text is only a fragment of a very old Judeo-Spanish song about the social…
58. La despedida (Isaac Algazi)
The author of this song, Dr. Maimon Levy, was an ophthalmologist, native of Corfu, who…
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… as this we can see the move of Western Ashkenazi liturgical poems such as Shofet kol ha’aretz to Eastern Europe. When …