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Lekh le-shalom geshem
… Part of the tiqqun ha-tal (Prayer for Dew), a prayer recited on the first day of Passover to mark the passing from the … and London bears a similarity with the opening of the Israeli national anthem, Hatiqvah , a curious fact that has …
Va-ya'al Moshe me- 'arbot Mo'ab (Deuteronomy 34)
… This is the concluding chapter of Ve-zot haberakha, the last parashah (reading portion) of the Torah … The verses that describe the death of Moses before the Israelites enter the Promised Land provide emotional …
Kamti lehallel leshem hael hanikhbad
… This is a rare baqqasha by an anonymous author for the opening of the Sabbath morning liturgy. It appears for the first time … e.g. in the Tefillat kol peh , Gebeden der Portugees-israelitieten (Amsterdam, 1950, p. 3). The poem opens with a …
Shelomo Morag
… Shlomo Morag was an Israeli professor at the department of Hebrew Language at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Morag founded the Jewish …
Isaac Levy
… born in Manisa near Izmir to a Sephardic Jewish family. At the age of three, he moved with his family to then Mandatory Palestine. Levy studied at the Conservatory … he was appointed head of the Ladino department at the Israeli public radio, Kol Yisrael ("Voice of Israel"). In …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… There are scholars of Jewish and Israeli culture whose crucial contributions remain sealed to those who do not command the Hebrew language. Eliyahu Hacohen was perhaps among the …
שיר הנמל
… In the Israeli imagination, the Mediterranean Sea evokes at once the western frontier, the venue from which one arrives to …
Anu Be-hamon Shir
… Ḥ useyni A piyyut for brit milah (circumcision) included in the section of seli ḥ ot for the Sabbaths of the month of Elul. The author is apparently … from the Aleppo Mahzor (1527) … Piyyutim … Contemporary Israeli Music … Ethnic music … Israeli art music … Israeli …
Mi-pi el
… Maqam: Ḥ ijaz This piyyut for Simḥat Torah appears in the ma ḥ zor after the service and Torah reading for that holiday. We readily … the Aleppo Mahzor (1527) … Piyyutim … Aleppo … Contemporary Israeli Music … Israeli art music … Israeli composers … …
Uri Sharvit
… was born in Jerusalem in 1939. He received his diploma from the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem in 1965, his bachelor's degree from the Hebrew University in 1968, his Master of Arts from … Tunes from Galicia (1995). In 1980 he won the League of Israeli Composers, Authors, and Publishers' first prize for …