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9. Paradesi Synagogue Song
… 1980, 246), a Hebrew piyyut by the sixteenth-century Sephardic poet Itzhak Salama, mistakenly attributed in later generations to Rabbi Isaac Luria Ashkenazi (Ha’Ari). The same melody was …
Rabbi David Buzaglo
… Rabbi David Buzaglo is one of their most iconic … that differs from the Ashkenazi version and even from other Sephardic and Oriental versions. In real time, three cantors … Poetry and Jewish Liturgy,” The Journal for the Study of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry 2 , no. 1 (2008): 37–62. Meir …
Ezra Barnea
… was born in the Bukharian quarter of Jerusalem in 1935 to Rabbi Nehemiah Ezra Mizrahi, a scion of a family of Persian … musician, paytan and cantor, an expert on the Jerusalem Sephardic tradition of which he was one of its true … started to serve from a young age as assistant to notable Sephardic and Oriental cantors of the time. Attentive as he …
A Flowering Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not just) for Tu BiShvat
… However, present-day celebrations of this holyday among Sephardic and Oriental Jews with a festive meal similar to … 2019 ) that nevertheless exerted great influence on modern Sephardic and Oriental Jewish ritual practices. This … Tu biShvat (Salonika 1800, 1801) containing a long copla by Rabbi Yehuda bar Leon Kal'i of Salonika (d. 1782) to be …
Yaakov Huri
… he was only seventeen years old, he was already ordained as rabbi. Huri belonged to the Zionist sector of the Jewish … was the prominent Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (1920-2013), Chief Sephardic Rabbi (1973-1983) and political figure, whom he … political purposes. He received an offer to belong to the Sephardic religious party (SHAS) in exchange for a senior …
7. Merienda de Hanukkah: Aquí Mos Vinimos
… In the Sephardic community of Jerusalem, it was customary to … eggs) the rubisa (the wife of the hakham, that is, the rabbi) prepared their Hannukah snack. In the field survey, …
5. Mi-Pi El (De Boca del Dio)
… of the Beit El synagogue in Jerusalem and its leader Rabbi Shalom Shar’abi (1720-1770), the seven haqqafot … intentions. This practice was preserved and promoted in Sephardic prayer books by Rabbi Haim Yosef David Azulay … Mi-pi El ) in his manuscript collection of piyyutim and Sephardic songs dated no later than 1790 (Ms. British …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… order when compared to the predominantly canonical Sephardic and Ashkenazi ones in all their variants. Although aligned mostly with the Western Sephardic tradition, it contains unique texts such as the … order. The first Algerian version (Ex. 1), sung by Rabbi Meir Sulam and members of the Jewish community of …
Haim Louk
… Rabbi Haim Louk was born in 1942 in Casablanca , Morocco, to … was here that Louk was introduced to the world of piyyut . Rabbi Yitzhak Kedoshim, the choir's conductor at the time, … invited to serve as the cantor and rabbi of the Em Habanim Sephardic community in Los Angeles, which follows the …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… splendor. In the carrières (or Comtadin ghettos) the Sephardic liturgy was not devoid of traces of the atmosphere … who comes over from Marseilles for the festivals is a Sephardic Jew but not a Comtadin. [7] I have watched the … xiii): “Au dernier moment nous apprenons de M. Kahn, grand rabbin à Nimes, séjournant pour quelques semaines à Vichy, …