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Atanu Lehalot panekha
… (1986). The Amsterdam version, like all the related Western Sephardi ones, is characterized by a repetitive …
Akdamut millin
… is in a psalmodic style and the other is set to a modern Western melody. … Akdamut millin …
Badhan
… Hebrew lit. entertainer. A merrymaker, rhymester, and musician who entertains primarily at weddings. … Professional Jewish singers called badhanim or leizanim ('jesters') are mentioned in medieval rabbinical literature …
Minhah
… by the kaddish, before reciting Psalm 84. Some of the western European Sephardic communities excluded the Pitum … of Talmud study. In still other communities, such as the western European Sephardim, the cantor chants the last three …
Esther
… Heb. Megillat Ester. The scroll of Esther is recited on Purim and recounts …
Ma'oz Tzur
… the most commonly sung version of this hymn comes from the Western European Ashkenazi tradition dating back to the 15th …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… Avenary concludes that each of the three regions of Western Ashkenaz consolidated their own variants of the … their different modality the two melodies, the “common” or Western and the “alternative” or Eastern, one have some …
Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… and played an important role in the dissemination in Western Europe and North Africa of the “new” style of … of Israel, Turkey and Greece. Through this collection, the Western Jewish communities became familiar with the songs of …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… Haim Effendi was born in Edirne (formerly Adrianople in Western Thrace, today Turkey) in 1853. He spent most of his … by modernizing trends characterized by an exposure to Western culture (most particularly French), to liberal trends …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… 13 th century containing our poem (twice) is the French (Western Ashkenazi) order of prayers for the High Holy Days, … and obviously it indicates that in the circle of the (Western Ashkenazi) users of this manuscript there was an … more important from an historical perspective is that this Western Ashkenazi source apparently moved eastwards, as it …