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Netanel Cohen (Musai)
… A scholar specializing in Jewish music, with a particular emphasis on the liturgical and piyyut traditions of Eastern Jewish communities. He holds a PhD in Musicology from the … he serves as the music curator for "The Piyyut and Prayer website" ("An Invitation to Piyut") . … Researcher …
Hus elohai mime'onkha (Have mercy O Lord, from Thy dwelling)
… Girdle poem by Hisdai, a prayer for redemption, set as a response to Yehuda Halevi's … a girdle poem. It was a common practice among Yemenite Jewish poets to write responsive poems to extant classical …
"Sha'ali yefefiyah" (Ask, lovely one)
… of sacred poems among most Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewish communities, from Morocco to India, and they are sung … among the reshayot (permissions) - introductory songs to prayers or other songs sung on various occasions in which … (or the singer) asks God for permission to praise him with prayers and songs. In the Yemenite Diwan they are included …
Léibele Schwartz
… , and on the bilingual radio program La Hora Israelita (The Jewish Hour) in the Radio Porteña station. In 1947, at the … Zedek , the third oldest synagogue in New York City and the Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills , one of the oldest … works are High Holyday pieces such as ‘Salahti’ (from the prayer ‘Omnam ken,’ according to the Polish liturgical …
3. The Little Sister (Aḥot Qetanah)
… La nación judía recita oraciones (The Jewish nation recites prayers) This piyut belongs to the reshut ("permission") …
2. El Merecimiento de Isaac (Im Afes Rova Haqen)
… this calamity, God can trust the faithfulness of the Jewish people as Abraham demonstrated by obeying the order … was published in his book of translations of poems and prayers of the High Holydays published in Smyrna in 1910. … ed. Dumitru Hîncu et al. Bucharest: Federation of the Jewish Communities in Romania, 1998, 51-58. .ישראל, ראובן …
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 …
‘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 …
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 …
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 …