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'Et sha'are ratzon
These are the first and last strophes of one of the most remarkable medieval Hebrew…
Lekh le-shalom geshem
Part of the tiqqun ha-tal (Prayer for Dew), a prayer recited on the first day of…
Hallelu et adonay kol goyim (2)
This is another melody for hallel, used for the Festival of the Tabernacles (Succoth),…
Alekhem 'eda qedoshah
The qinnot (dirges) for the Ninth of Av, the Hebrew date marking the destruction of the…
Qumi ve-sifdi torah
Another qinnah performed before the reading of the Torah on the Ninth of Av. The melody…
Amen amen shem nora
… repertoire. Variants of it were recorded among the Sephardi Jews in Italy and Southern France too. Rev. Lopes Cardozo …
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 … Yemenites, Arabs, falla h im, [3] Georgians, Sephardic Jews, kushim , [4] Galician Jews and so forth. All sorts of sounds emanated from his …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… Upon Zangwill’s question, how can I return to Russia, where Jews are so maltreated, I answered that I prefer to be with … advice of relatives, to London intending to enroll at the Jews’ College where I would begin to study English. However, … a Jew would want to return to Russia, a wretched place for Jews, I replied to him that I prefer to be with my brothers …
James Levy
… together with a sizeable group of Moroccan and Gibraltar Jews who took advantage of that country’s immigration …