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Qaddish (Kadisch)
… improvised melody applied by Ottoman ḥazzanim (synagogue cantors) to the opening Qaddish of the Sabbath morning service in order to set the makam of the …
Yeẓav ha-El (Jessav a El)
… printed in Sephardi prayer books as reshut to Qaddish in the Yom Kippur Minhah service or as a pizmon for singing between Musaf and Minḥah of Yom Kippur. The opening unit consists of four verses and the stanzas of … melody in makam Uşak is widespread among Sephardi cantors who use it for singing other liturgical texts. The …
Veha-kohanim (Ve akoanim)
… Seder 'avodah , the remembrance of the Jerusalem Temple ritual for the Day of Atonement ( … of the text that is performed in the synagogue by the cantor. This unique, slow, solemn melody combines long …

'Et sha'arei razon (El tharé razon, Et charé rasson, Eth charé razon)
… The famous 'aqedah by Yehudah ben Shmuel 'Abbas of Fez, … (d. 1167) who lived in Fez and in Aleppo (Syria) is one of the most remarkable medieval Hebrew poems based on the … 2, no. 6) or Li-vritekha shokhen zevul are performed by the cantor in an elaborated manner. Two recordings of the same …
Zokhrenu le-ḥayyim (Zochrenou lechaim)
… A special insertion to the first blessing in the cantor's repetition of the High Holidays' 'amidah , this …
Adonai shama'ti shim'akha (Adonai Schamati)
… Piyyut of the type reshut ("permission") sung by the cantor prior to the repetition of the 'amidah (Eighteen …
Eliezer Goldberg, alias Leyzerke Kremenitser
… (Polish: Wiśniowiec, Ukrainian: Вишнівець) in Volhynia, then a town in the Russian Empire. He received a religious education in … hence his surname „Kremenitser”). His father, also a cantor, did not want him to engage in the same profession. …
Sylwia Jakubczyk-Ślęczka
… Jakubczyk-Ślęczka is a musicologist, faculty member at the Musicology Institute of Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Her primary research interest lies in the musical life of Galician Jews. She is also the author of … on the topic, as well as a monograph on prewar Krakow cantor, Eliezer Goldberg: galicyjski mistrz żydowskiej …
Rabbi David Buzaglo
… Rabbi David Buzaglo is one of their most iconic twentieth-century Moroccan Jews. The publication of an extensive new essay, [1] the first one … poet as well as the mentor of an entire generation of cantors and singers of sacred Hebrew poetry centered in …
The Ten Commandments
… … 43998 … Jerusalem … Yaakov Huri recordings: Excerpts from the Weekly Torah Portion … Hazzan, Hazan, Chazzanut, Hazzanut, Hazzanim, Hazzanim – Cantors, Cantors – Hazzanim, Cantors … Hazzan, Chazzan, … … Archival recordings … Baghdad … Chazzan … Edith (Esther) Gerson Kiwi … Hazan … Hazzan … Iraq … Jerusalem … …