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4. Las Tablas de la Ley (The Tablets of the Law)
… This is a song or copla belonging to the cycle of Moses, catalogued by Elena Romero under the title of Las tablas de la Ley (‘The Tablets of the Law’; BAECS 28a) and exhaustively studied …
"Yedid elyion shema' mini devarim" (May the Lord on high hear my words)
… by Yehosef, signed Yehosef Haqatan . An exhortation to read the Bible, the Mishnah , and the works of Maimonides, and to live a moral life ( Hafetz …
"Esh'al elohai - Vehalleluya" (I will ask my God - Halleluja)
… Poem by Yosef ben Israel, signed Ani Yosef . The poem speaks of the vision of redemption, the return to Zion and settlement in the Land of Israel. …
Sara Levi-Tanai
… renowned for her significant contributions to dance and theater in Israel. Her works, deeply rooted in Jewish and … immigrants. Her parents emigrated from Yemen as part of the wave of Jewish migration in the late 19th. Despite significant economic hardships, …
Sarah Gorby
… and classical singing. Her family's relocation to Paris in the 1920s allowed her to study under prominent music teachers and further develop her vocal technique. She initially performed in … attention. Sarah Gorby's career took a significant turn in the 1930s when she began recording Yiddish folk songs. Her …
"Ayumah be-har hamor" (The Beloved on the mountain of myrrh)
… , containing six stanzas in Hebrew and Arabic alternately. The structure of each stanza is: four verses of two hemistiches, three verses in the form of a Tawshih and two verses of two hemistiches rhyming with the leading verse. It describes the victory of the Messiah …
"Saperi tama temima" (Tell, pure and innocent)
… Girdle poem by Se'adia ben Amram, signed with the author's full name. Written in Hebrew, apart from the third and fourth stanzas, which are in Arabic. It is an appeal to the soul to turn away from evil desires, an allegorical poem …
Jacob Ben-Ami
… From a young age, Ben-Ami had a profound interest in theatre. As a child, he sang with various cantors and performed behind the curtains in Russian theatre. At seventeen, Ben-Ami began acting with the Russian …
Pinchas Borenstein
… Pinchas Borenstein was born in the small town of Jeziorna Królewska, a suburb of Warsaw, which was then part of the Kingdom of Poland under the Russian Empire (now Poland). …
Hus elohai mime'onkha (Have mercy O Lord, from Thy dwelling)
… which it is interlaced thus creating a double signature: the first verse of each stanza spell Hisdai , and the second verse renders Yehudah . Put differently, the even verses by themselves constitute Yehuda Halevi's …