… set of such verses included in the liturgical order of the Jews of Provençe, the subject of this Song of the Month, … those from Livorno. However, a closer look shows traces of North-African melodies, probably the result of migrations of Jews …

… prayer books even before the final expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. Moreover, nocturnal study and … majority of the piyyutim in Shir Yedidot were written by North African poets, the book also includes piyyutim written by …

… [1]  It has been retold by generation after generation of Jews in various vernacular languages, in both oral and … Isaac has constituted a common motif in works of art among Jews throughout the ages (Sabar 2009, 9–27). In Jewish … the tenth century in present day southern Germany and northern France. However, it also acquired two new layers of …

… period, apparently predating its use among Sephardic Jews. Manuscript 85 of the Archivio Storico Comunale of … fragments from an order of Selihot of the Ashkenazi Jews in Italy, dated to the 13 th or 14 th century (IMHM, PH … Germany, West of the Rhine river (See image no. 1) and in North Italy (see image no. 2), and an “alternative” tune …

… switch to the kemanja (violin played upright in the North African style). Between 1962 and 1970, Mwijo estimated that … he had towards the way the State of Israel treated Moroccan Jews (see more below), he remained a local patriot. A …

… period, apparently predating its use among Sephardic Jews. Manuscript 85 of the Archivio Storico Comunale of … fragments from an order of Selihot of the Ashkenazi Jews in Italy, dated to the 13 th or 14 th century (IMHM, PH … Germany, West of the Rhine river (See Image no. 1 ) and in North Italy (see image no. 2 ), and an “alternative” tune …

… generally the result of free improvisation... In Riteva [northwest of Kovno], Lithuania the ‘beroyges’ and ‘shalom’ … . [In another description, from a wedding of Lithuanian Jews in America, c. 1959:] The guests stand in a large … Samuel Rappaport, on the religious life of Eastern European Jews, he records that the ‘beroyges’ dance, was arranged …