… Written in Aramaic,  H ad Gadya appears at the very end of the Passover Haggadah.  Like E h ad Mi Yodeah, also found … in a now lost, anonymous manuscript of a Hebrew prayer book in parchment apparently still found during his time … Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, heb. 637, a  siddur  (prayer book) according to the custom of Provence, apparently …

… in 1887, and settled in the then Yemenite neighborhood of Nahalat Tsvi, in Jerusalem, and married Na'ama Amrani, … from typhus when she was three years old. After the death of her parents, she was brought to live with her uncle in … suited her more naturally. She herself wrote in her book Kolot Rabim  that only a few of the hundred of songs …

… Research Centre announces with sadness the recent passing of Cheikh Mwijo (1937-2020), one of the most distinguished … that as a token of gratitude, Ben Haroush left him his songbooks, which had also been handed down to him.  The songbooks would prove to be the source from which Mwijo drew his …

… is attributed to Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra, considered onle of the last great poets of the Spanish 'Golden Age' of … various scientific fields) and also translated important books of his era into Hebrew. [1]   Performance Context “Eli … of the blessing, as it is printed today in siddurim (prayer books) , was formulated among the Babylonian sages during …

… Avenary, Hanoch. 1986. "Persistence and Transformation of a Sephardic Penitential Hymn Under Changing Environmental … J ournal of Jewish Music and Liturgy 19: 19-30. Bar-Tal, Daniel, and Dikla Antebi. 1992. "Beliefs about negative … 1973. The Interpretation of Culture . New York: Basic Books. Gerson Kiwi, Edith. 1971. "The Music of Kurdistan …

… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other Biblical texts in liturgical … one for Lamentations, read on Tisha B’av; (5) one for the book of Esther, read on Purim; and (6) one for the festive …                                                       Weil, Daniel. 1995.  The Masoretic Chant of the Bible . Jerusalem: …