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50. Bezokhri 'al mishkavi (Çakum Effendi)
A selihah by Rabbi Yehudah Ibn Bal’am (Al-Andalus, 11th century). Çakum Effendi sings…
58. La despedida (Isaac Algazi)
The author of this song, Dr. Maimon Levy, was an ophthalmologist, native of Corfu, who…
60. Noche de alhad (Elie Cohen)
A paraphrase of the first stanza of the piyyut Be-moza’ei yom menuhah, this traditional…
71. El juramento del mancebo + El escolero y las viñas + El novio desprendido (La Gloria)
A unique string of fragments from three wedding songs, perhaps hinting to a performance…
Isaac Levy
Isaac Levy was born in Manisa near Izmir to a Sephardic Jewish family. At the age of…
Lekha dodi
Kabbalat shabbat ("Welcoming of the Sabbath"), a ritual developed by the kabbalists of…
Kol beru’e ma’ala umata
The poem depicts "all Creatures" singing and praising the Unity of God. In the Sephardi…
Kamti lehallel leshem hael hanikhbad
This is a rare baqqasha by an anonymous author for the opening of the Sabbath morning…
Berukhim atem qehal emmunai
An old Sephardi piyyut for circumcision, it is sung by the congregation as the child to…
A Recovered Voice from the Past
Preface
The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German…