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Badhan
… badhanim or leizanim ('jesters') are mentioned in medieval rabbinical literature (e.g. R. Elijah b. Isaac of Carcassonne's Asufot) … as a professional wedding entertainer. In response to rabbinic prohibition against excessive merrymaking, the …
Ekhah
… the Five Scrolls in the Bible, read on the Ninth of Av. In rabbinic literature its contents are indicated by the names Qinot …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… important study recapitulates most of the previous relevant literature on the topic while at the same time offers a … Study of Yiddish: Studies in Language, Yiddish Folklore and Literature 1 (1954), pp. 214-218. Shmeruk’s claim that the …
Sher
… on the fact that the šer was never mentioned in Jewish literature, either in belles lettres or in memoirs. We … which we do not see as much as a complete line about in the rabbinic responsa books and rabbinical Musar books from the centuries preceding the …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… present have generated a rather dense, one-hundred year old literature on the subject. This quest produced speculative … songs from the Land of Israel to the students of the famous rabbinical seminary of that city. One of these students, … to the Zionist anthem has been perpetuated in the scholarly literature as well as in narratives that are more popular. …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… [Heb. parush ]) in a Beshamidrash [Heb. Beit Midrash, rabbinical academy], who introduced me to the pilpul … beginning of harmony. He acquainted me with the Chazanic literature of Weintraub, Sulzer, Lewandowski and others. He … At the same time I was an ardent reader of modern Hebrew literature, from M. Ch. Luzzatto’s poetry to the …