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Shoshana Ben-Dor
Shoshana Ben-Dor is an important scholar of Ethiopian Jews in Israel since 1979. She…
Piris Eliyahu
Piris Eliyahu was born in Dagestan. He spent his childhood and early adult years there,…
Shelomo Morag
Shlomo Morag was an Israeli professor at the department of Hebrew Language at…
Hashkivenu
Singing Hashkivenu with a distinctive melody in the Friday night service is…
Tzur mishelo akhlanu
Table songs (zemirot shabbat), poems sung by family and guests after the festive Sabbath…
Kol beru’e ma’ala umata
The poem depicts "all Creatures" singing and praising the Unity of God. In the Sephardi…
Im tashiv (Qiddush shel Shabbat)
The sanctification (qiddush) of the Sabbath Day over the wine, a selection of Biblical…
Az yashir Moshe (Song of the Sea; Exodus 15) (2 versions)
The Song of the Sea or Song of Moses, a section of the morning liturgy, is sung in…
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
This document, in the form of a synoptic table, incorporates three versions of Idelsohn’…
James Levy
The musical lore of James Levy's family has deep roots in Gibraltar. Toward the end of…