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From Destruction to Rebuilding in the Iberian Peninsula
… transcription of the greater Spanish and Portuguese 'mother communities' while examining the thematic structure of …
The Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Liturgy
… as Western Sephardi. The exceptionally small size of these communities and their concentration in very few urban …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… the common foundations of the Hebrew Music of all of the communities. My opinion was that if there is authenticity in … then there should be common foundations for all of the communities. And if common foundations like these exist for all of the communities, these are the sparks of the National Soul –– …
Berukhim atem qehal emmunai
… (the chair of Elijah). This poem is known in most Jewish communities around the Mediterranean. Its text by an …
Shir hashirim (Song of Songs 1: 1-4)
… with this special melody. Unlike the Eastern Sephardi communities who read this Biblical book on every Sabbath eve the Spanish Portuguese communities read it once a year, on Passover. … The Western …
'Et sha'are ratzon
… the tune for the same text sung in the Eastern Sephardi communities. The last stanza of the poem ( Livritekha ) is …
Shema' qoli
… of Babylonia (today Iraq). It was adopted by the Sephardi communities as an introduction to the Yom Kippur evening … recalls the ones used for this poem in other Sephardi communities, especially in North Africa. This similarity …
Atanu leḥalot panekha
… melodies to which this text is performed in all Sephardi communities share a common, ancient kernel as was …
Mizmor le-david (Psalm 29)
… technique of Psalm recitation is widespread among Sephardi communities. The tunes used by the Western Sephardi Jews are …
Yevarekhekha
… and, in the Land of Israel, on Sabbaths, too (some Sephardi communities outside Israel also follow this custom). Each …