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Kaddish

… Sabbath and themes of Cantatas that were composed for the Portuguese synagogue in Amsterdam by various composers. It is related to other musical resources of the Amsterdam Portuguese community, which were researched meticulously by …

The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam

… Europe. Among the refugees were wealthy Spanish and Portuguese Jews and Huguenot merchants who fled from Antwerp … the Iberian Jews preferred to call themselves the 'Portuguese community' rather than 'Spanish.' The religious … Upon arriving in Amsterdam, many of those known as Portuguese Jews settled in a neighborhood later known as the …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections

… The Ancient Melodies of the Liturgy of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews by Emanuel Aguilar and David Aharon de Sola … short, despite this prestigious “Jewish pedigree” (and the Portuguese Jews who sing Lekh le-shalom geshem held an even … Italian Renaissance hypothesis) could be explored. Many Portuguese Jewish liturgical melodies originated in the …

A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions

… “Sacred Melodies” [ Ancient Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese Liturgy ] No. 27, London, 1857) and of Leghorn … do the Moroccan as well as many other Ottoman and Spanish-Portuguese versions. The scansion of the poem’s poetic …

Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot

… connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s study of …

The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair

… his 1887 sojourn to the Ets Haim library at the magnificent Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, is one of several works … composers (such as Lidarti) composed on behalf of the Portuguese community in the late Baroque style. It attests … Nahamu (when the anniversary of the foundation of the Portuguese synagogue in 1675 in celebrated), these artistic …