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Better still than this is that they should recite the “Verses of Praise,” Yigdal and Adon Olam, and the other exalted prayers on Sabbaths and festivals to the accompaniment of the harp and the sound…
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Aaron Chorin
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1818
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“The tragic element in Shostakovich’s worldview” is the subject of longstanding debate. Was it a prophetic dream of Soviet Jewry, the spirit of which weighed on Shostakovich even in his youth? His…
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Leonid Girshovich
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1998
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These are the words of the covenant as a statute for Jacob, as an everlasting covenant for Israel; the Almighty spoke but once—and He will never alter His law—through the Torah and the ruling which…
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Bet Din of Hamburg
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark
(Altona, Germany)
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1819
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Let the elders rejoice and the discerning be glad, the students and rabbis be happy, and the princes and the officers, and the wealthy and the needy exult, with the poor and those lacking sustenance…
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Judah Leyb Zelichover
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark
(Altona, Germany)
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1697
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No householder or unmarried man above the age of thirteen may wear a colored hat in the synagogue on Shabbat or Yom Tov, only a black hat. Likewise, a householder may not come to the synagogue wearing…
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The Jewish Communities of Altona, Hamburg, and Wandsbek
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark
(Altona, Germany)
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1714–1733
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23 October. The actors convince me by their presence time and again, to my consternation, that most of what I’ve written about them so far is wrong. It is wrong because I wrote about them with…
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Franz Kafka
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1911
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French and Russian they matter not,
A blow for a blow and a shot for a shot;
We love them not, we hate them not.
We hold the Weichsel and Vosges-gate,
We have but one—and only hate,
We love as one…
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Ernst Lissauer
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(Germany, Germany)
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1914
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For decades, my efforts have been directed at purifying the old modes [die alten Weisen]. Through [general] use and arbitrary treatment they have suffered tactless changes and distortions. I…
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Louis Lewandowski
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
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1882
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The attempt to edit a songbook for Jewish organizations is such an entirely new undertaking—one without any precedent whatsoever—that it would appear necessary to offer a few words of…
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Heinrich Loewe
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
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1894
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A systematic collection of the traditional songs of Oriental Jews is of great importance, both for the elucidation of the vocal music used in synagogues and for the study of the origins of…
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Avraham Tsvi Idelsohn
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1914