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"Saperi tama temima" (Tell, pure and innocent)
Girdle poem by Se'adia ben Amram, signed with the author's full name. Written in Hebrew…
Zemirot
The word Zemirot means literally 'songs' or 'hymns' but is used to refer to two specific…
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… his body [alive] like an artificial machine. And how many poets, wise visionaries and authors, appeared in our midst, …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… Edelstadt (1866–1892), one of the radical socialist Yiddish poets who settled in the USA in 1881, penned the text of … rapidly crossed the ocean back to the lands from where the poets and composers who composed them had immigrated. …
Menashe Ravina
Menashe Ravina was born in Pereyaslav, now part of Ukraine, to Elazar, a cantor and…
60. Noche de alhad (Elie Cohen)
A paraphrase of the first stanza of the piyyut Be-moza’ei yom menuhah, this traditional…
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac,…
Eduard Birnbaum
Eduard Birnbaum was born in 1855 in Cracow to a family of notable Rabbis and scholars.…