Yigdal (Pitilgliano)

Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961)
Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961)
Yigdal (Pitilgliano)

Leo Levi, Michele Bolaffi


A piyyut enumerating Maimonides' Thirteen Articles of the Jewish faith, written in Rome in the 14th century. This melody, sung at the end of the Sabbath Evening service in the Italian rite of Pitigliano, is derived from a setting by the Livornese composer Michele Bolaffi.

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