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Avraham Soltes
Avraham Soltes was born on March 3, 1917, in New York City, to parents who recently…
A Flowering Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not just) for Tu BiShvat
… The theme of the debate between flowers is found in medieval Hispano-Arabic and Maghrebi poetry as well as in … and musical background that can be traced back to the medieval period. The Sephardic copla El debate de las flores …
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… in the Portuguese synagogue in London, although there, the medieval Sephardic influence is more prominent. It is …
Elio Piattelli
… French (Ballade des dames du temps jadis by F. Villon), medieval Hebrew (Yehudah Halevi and “A poem by Shemuél …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… folksongs added to the Haggadah sometime during the late medieval period to vernacular languages is indeed a common …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… determine, but at the very latest one can point to the late medieval period. These verses already appear in the very …
אמנון שילוח
… (2001). הוא פרסם גם בכתבי העת Cahiers de civilisation medievale, Ethnomusicology, Acta Musicologica, אריאל, …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… possibility of local accretions (generically defined as “medieval French chants”). Musically speaking, Minhag … in its entirety after the soloist, a rare technique in post-medieval Jewish liturgies … Rabbi Meir Zini (1921-2012), who …
Mordekhai Zeira
Life
Mordekhai Zeira was born in Kiev, Russia, in 1905. Although he was born to a…