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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 …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… of this poem in Sephardic communities, emphasizing Spanish-Portuguese and North African versions in the article … of motifs in the melodies of the North African, Spanish-Portuguese and Balkan traditions. Hocha’s performance, on …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… invited to serve as hazzan (cantor) of the new, flourishing Portuguese Jewish community. In 1628, he published in his …
Moshe Cordova
… Constantinopoli (Community of Foreign Jews of the Spanish-Portuguese Rite of Istanbul). Their impressive synagogue on …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… the recording of the entire liturgical cycle of the Spanish-Portuguese synagogue from London with the Reverend Eliezer …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… Trabajos de la Semana: Congeneres Sefardíes, Españoles y Portugueses,” Estudos de Literatura Oral 2, pp. 125-150. … …