… His father, Haim Albaradani was a cantor and a poet, and his piyutim had probably influenced Joseph. Joseph … vehapiyut shel yehudey Baghdad  (Hebrew)   … Liturgical poet (paytan) and cantor in the Great Synagogue of Baghdad … …

A lively and humorous song composed in Kochi by Daniel Haim (d. 1935) for the holiday of…

Im nin’alu daltei nedivim is a shira by Shalem Shabazi, signed Alshabazi…

  Born in Szaki, Lithuania, Friedmann studied in Berlin and in 1882 was…

… song is in fact a later creation by a still-unidentified poet also named Shlomo. This peculiar satirical poem … the borderline between medieval secular and sacred poetry characteristic of the Andalusian Sephardic milieu. … of Kikhlot yeini tell a story, as follows: a friend of the poet called Moshe (Moses) has invited him to a banquet. The …

… its activities in Istanbul. The Mafṭirim performed Hebrew poetry set to Turkish classical music on the Sabbaths at the … the acting chief rabbi of Istanbul, Haim Bejerano (also a poet and composer), Itzak Algazi, the composer/singer of … of the recording of the second piece, El lo yishan , by a poet named Aharon, perhaps the late 17 th century Aharon …

Yehi shalom (zemer le-berit milah). Let there be peace (tune for the circumcision…

In the Sephardi rite this piyyut attributed to Abraham Hazan Gerondi (13th century) is…

… the main late-19th century compendium of religious Hebrew poetry from Western Algeria. As with many other items in … shamayim (acrostic Abraham) has its origins in the Hebrew poetry of the Eastern Mediterranean, most probably in … 1921), the ultimate printed collection of sacred Hebrew poetry set to Ottoman art music. All these and several other …

Die alte Kasche stands out in the Yiddish folksong corpus for its simplest and yet…