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The Western Sephardi Liturgical Tradition as Sung by Abraham Lopes Cardoso

Hashkivenu

… for this text were created by composers associated with the community in Amsterdam. The present, elaborated piece is an …

Kol beru’e ma’ala umata

… Palache was the Parnas Presidente of the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam before World War II. According to …

Keter

… by Captain Naftali Taylor Philips, a Past President of the community, not to sing it and, in general, not to introduce …

Miyom qadmon

… of sacred texts that characterized the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam. The poem was composed by Moshe de …

… of Saloniki, one of the first cantors of the Portuguese community in Amsterdam. It is most likely that this and many … Eastern Mediterranean were transmitted to the Portuguese community in Amsterdam by this hazzan and poet. This is an …

A Recovered Voice from the Past

… in the institutionalization of the music life in the Jewish community of late Ottoman Palestine (Hirschberg 1995, ch. … pp. 417-453. Hirshberg, Jehoash. 1995. Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880-1948. A Social History . Oxford … language in opposition to the orphanage of the Ashkenazi community run by the Haredi community where Yiddish was …

Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire

… a school for cantors. He gave me a place in a Bavarian community. Brainin approved my action in becoming untrue to … genuine Jewish. I, therefore, took a position in a Bavarian community, Regensburg, as Chazan and Schochet […] Hebrew … Israel, a microcosm of the ingathering of the exiles. Each community would guard its traditions especially jealously! …