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Diwan
… Diwan meant exclusively a collection of poems by a single author. Today however, the term refers to an anthology of poems by a number of authors. The Diwan of the Jews of Yemen is a paraliturgical … century onward by the addition of poems by Yemenite authors, and at this stage it began to be copied and bound …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… in use in the court music of the Ottoman Empire during the author’s lifetime. Moreover, the lehanim (plural of lahan, … (16th and 17th centuries); and piyyutim of later local authors (from the 18th to the 20th centuries), including … rabbinical figures from Aleppo. The identity of some of the authors is unknown. In alphabetical order, the known authors …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… rare recordings of Ashkenazi melodies for this piyyut. The author’s first name – Solomon – surfaces in the acrostic, and its authorship was variously attributed to Solomon bar Abun, …
Prayer for the state
… of the government; for were it not for the fear of its authority, a man would swallow his neighbor alive.“ (Avot … development of Hebrew prayers for the government and the authorship of the “Prayer for the Well-being of the Stated … Gurion, the Chief Rabbis Herzog and Uziel, and many other authorities of the young state. Performing was Hazzan Israel …
Mi-al har horev from the manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte
… double acrostic form, the research group suggested that the author of the fragment was an 11th-century poet by the name … wrote his memoirs. The discovery of Obadiah the Proselyte's authorship essentially solved the mystery of the rare …
Selihot according to Siftei renanot
… Ibn Ghayyat (Lucena, Al-Andalus, 1038-1089), a halakhic authority, Biblical commentator and poet, this Iberian order …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… traditional Ottoman Jewish community ruled by rabbinical authority was shattered by modernizing trends characterized …
Hanukah Blessings
… the liturgical music of the Parisian synagogues under the authority of the Consistoire regardless of the ethnic …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… has fulfilled the function of sacrifice. The name of the author of Shofet kol ha’aretz, Salomon, surfaces from the … acrostic – Shlomo hazaq ve’ematz – and for this reason the authorship of the poem is usually attributed to Salomon Ibn … such as Leopold Zunz, have also suggested another possible author: Salomon bar Abun the young, (late twelfth century, …
Ner Haviv, Ner Na'eh
… it with an important twist: the identification of texts’ author and an additional musical version, very different … The text was written by the Polish-born Hebrew poet and author Sh. Shalom (pseudonym of Shalom Joseph Shapira; 1904–1990). The poem was titled by its author ('Under the light of the candle'). The song is an …