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2-7. El parto feliz
… mother of the newborn. In song no. 4 she is asked: “What you have given birth to, that you filled the house with light?” The refrain exclaims: “Let … father.” Addressing the newborn’s mother the text says: “Your sufferings during the nine months of pregnancy were …
Revisiting a Forgotten Treasure in Philadelphia
The library of Gratz College is very well known among scholars and collectors of Jewish…
James Levy
… with the responsibility of supporting his mother and his younger brother. Even though he was an excellent student, he …
Mapping of German Liturgical Music
… In addition to viewing the database on our map , you can also download the database as an excel file. The …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… we added selections of the recorded memoire of Idelsohn’s younger daughter, Yiska. This document remained in … was to Chasidic music. He sang in choirs and travelled as a young man and one day he met a great rabbi who told him that … in Leipzig he was all dressed in white, like they dressed you when you died with your head on a white cushion. He …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… project was at times detrimental to his duties as head of a young family. We are pleased to publish this text here in … of Shoshanah’s sister, Yiska, Idelsohn’s fourth and youngest child. Yiska recorded her memoires by herself on … in 1905 and moved to Palestine with her father, mother and younger brother Eliyahu in 1907. She left Palestine for …
Atanu leḥalot panekha
… , "forgive us and send us redemption and mercy from Your abode"). The melodies to which this text is performed …
Moshe Havusha
… a prominent hazzan in Baghdad and then in Jerusalem. As a young boy, Havusha became attracted to the surrounding …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… School. In the late 1950s while serving as officer at the Youth Corps of the IDF, Hacohen produced a mimeographed … collection of over thousand Hebrew songs for the young soldiers. A copy of the songster came to the attention … the legendary program “Sharti lakh artzi” ("I sang to you, my country") . On the air between 1974 and 1976, this …
Agadelkha Elohei (Shir ha-yihud)
… Agadelkha Elohei ( Shir ha-yihud ). I will praise you, god (Song of Unity). Performed by hakham Nissim (with …