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Moshe Havusha
… neighborhood. He absorbed the ancient Iraqi traditions of prayer and piyyutim from his grandfather, Hakham Gurji Yair, … competition held in Haifa, where he competed against both Jewish and Muslim musicians. Source: Goldstein, Riki. “A …
Kamti lehallel leshem hael hanikhbad
… it appears already in the Seder tefillot (Order of Prayers) printed by Joseph Attias in 1661. It continued to be printed in Amsterdam prayer books until relatively recently, e.g. in the Tefillat … ends on the first tone. This tune may have Eastern European Jewish origins. … The Western Sephardi Liturgical Tradition …
Yevarekhekha
… (Holy Ark) to bless the congregation while covered with prayer shawls. In the present recording, Rev. Lopes Cardozo …
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 …
Mi hakham ve-yishmor eleh, Qaddish and Barekhu
… the melody of the "Dew and Rain" ( tal va-geshem ) prayer (compare no. 27 above ). This liturgical music unit …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … and saints, or Leidensgeschichte and Geistesgeschichte . Jewish Studies in this formulation consisted of the … of his books and articles on Jewish music and liturgy, prayers and cantorial music that had not been published in …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one … 34 after several years of self-mortification and midnight prayers. My father, orphaned at the age of twelve, had to … the special favor of the Duke who allowed her, as the only Jewish pupil, to visit his German primary school. All her …
James Levy
… Congregación Israelita Latina of Buenos Aires in 1891 ( The Jewish Presence in Latin America ). He also composed … of about three hundred and fifty liturgical songs and prayers, many with several musical variations. It is …
‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… around the mid-sixteenth century from the circles of Jewish mystics of Safed and spready rapidly throughout the Jewish world, especially to Italy. One key figure in these … acrostic] at the end of Shabbat Minhah [Sabbath afternoon prayer], and [also reads] a chapter [of Pirqe avot, the …
1. El atán, el atado y el ara (Et sha'arei ratzon)
… The texts recorded come from free translations of the Jewish liturgy into Judeo-Spanish (that is, not from … translations), versions that were eventually printed in prayer books, in Hebrew characters, parallel to the original …