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Yizhak Edel
Yitzhak Edel was born in Warsaw in 1896 to a Hassidic family. His grandfather, a…
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… fled the Rhein valley following the late thirteenth century persecutions and settled eventually in Toledo, Spain. …
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
The beautiful Dutch synagogue is also known by its Ladino name, Esnoga, and is one of…
Had Gadya
Written in Aramaic, Had Gadya appears at the very end of the Passover Haggadah.…
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Kinah piyyutim (dirges) [3] portraying the anti-Jewish persecutions which occurred from 1096 onwards often mention … Binding of Isaac, connecting it with contemporary or past persecutions suffered by Jews in Europe, while proclaiming faith in God and/or accepting persecutions as His will. The earliest reference to Niggun …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… (a song about the hope of the Armenian victims of Ottoman persecutions!) songs belonging to the same melody-type …