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Eliyahu Hacohen
There are scholars of Jewish and Israeli culture whose crucial contributions remain…
Lekha dodi
Kabbalat shabbat ("Welcoming of the Sabbath"), a ritual developed by the kabbalists of…
Kol beru’e ma’ala umata
The poem depicts "all Creatures" singing and praising the Unity of God. In the Sephardi…
Miyom qadmon
This is a special holiday song performed at the parties of the confraternities dedicated…
Berukhim atem qehal emmunai
An old Sephardi piyyut for circumcision, it is sung by the congregation as the child to…
A Recovered Voice from the Past
Preface
The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German…
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
This document, in the form of a synoptic table, incorporates three versions of Idelsohn’…
Jews in Gibraltar and the music of their synagogues
Jews in Gibraltar and the music of their synagogues: An introduction
Introducing the…
Abraham Beniso
Hazzan Abraham Beniso was born in Gibraltar, on January 21, 1923. During World War ІІ he…
From Destruction to Rebuilding in the Iberian Peninsula
This article touches upon the Ninth of Av qinot (dirges), as sung at the Nefutsot Yehuda…