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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
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Yakhne-Brayne [Reading slowly and with difficulty so that the words run together in a monotone.]:“And God caused the Temple to be destroyed and said, ‘I will remember your sins and you will devour…
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David Pinski
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New York, United States of America
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1906
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Written down while working in the fields, patterned after the Arabic working song and sung to that tune.
O I have my life and my labor!
Yah ḥai li, li-hah-‘amali!
Awaken, my brothers, there’s no…
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Bar-Nash (Noah Shapiro)
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Zikhron Ya'akov, Ottoman Palestine
(Zikhron Ya‘aqov, Israel)
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1895
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I do not believe in free love.
There is legal marriage, an institution based on ideas and pretenses.
A legally married wife you can divorce, but where will you run away from free love?
As for…
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Moyshe Nadir
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New York, United States of America
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1915
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We are becoming so accustomed to the remarkable enterprise of the authorities of the Temple, East End Jewry’s playhouse in Commercial Road, that we cease to wonder at anything they now attempt in…
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(London, United Kingdom)
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1912
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Robert le diable (Robert the Devil) is an opera in five acts composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer between 1827 and 1831. One of the first grand operas, it caused a sensation when it debuted at the Paris…
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
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Paris, Kingdom of France
(Paris, France)
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1831
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Haim Maor
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Kibbutz Givat Haim, Israel
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1980
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An Explanation of the Plot of this Book
Naʿma is the daughter of a caïd of one of the regions in Iraq, and Nuʿman is her paternal first cousin, whom she married while her father was still alive. When…
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Abraham Daninos
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Algiers, French Algeria
(Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
1847
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I want to recount a beautiful tale. I ask that the men relax. Listen, and see how marvelous it is how merciful God restores justice for us.
Jacob:
He said to his son, I wanted to send you to find out…
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Moses Samuel Konfino
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Bucharest, Ottoman Empire
(Bucharest, Romania)
Date:
1862
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A Play by Molière in One Act of Sixteen Scenes[Carlo, Esterina]Carlo:Is there any news, Esterina? Do you have any advice for me?Esterina:Why do you want advice? I have a lot of news for you…
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Unknown
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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1873