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(The songs)
It frightens us so,
With our poor wares to go
And face the wide world and its scorn.
We have lived many days,
But know only the ways.
Of the villages where we were born.
(The author)
Yo…
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Pesach-Elijah Badkhn
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1871
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Louis Lewandowski
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1876
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A poem that I, Sa‘adia Longo, wrote to an important and wealthy man from Nicopolis, who came here to Salonika to marry a woman. I was not able to participate in his celebration because I was…
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Sa‘adia Longo
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
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End of the 16th Century
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A nighttime song of praise I have
To sing before my Lord,
And in the day His help is at my side.
All my life, my soul has longed
To see the courts
Of God, to read the Torah.
And so I come betimes…
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Isaac Samuel Modeano
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
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End of the 17th Century
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By the rivers of Babylon,
there we sat,
sat and wept,
as we thought of Zion.
There on the poplars
we hung up our lyres,
for our captors asked us there for songs,
our tormentors, for amusement,
“Si…
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To satisfy your doubt concerning my signature, I have to tell you, in all philosophical frankness, that I was born with a burning desire and the greatest curiosity to know, more as a way to get to…
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Joseph Attias
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Livorno, Kingdom of Italy
(Livorno, Italy)
Date:
1733
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If I was indeed engaged in my youth with singing and the musical art, surely it is the most magnificent of the arts, and I have elucidated its beneficial effects in the Abir Ya‘akov in this commentary…
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David Messer Leon
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Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
Early 16th Century
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The kinnor, called in a foreign tongue arpa (harp), is a wooden instrument made in the likeness of a wide-open entrance without their being doors on it, and its upper threshold is broad and its lower…
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Abraham Portaleone
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1611
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May the language of truth be established forever, or as the poet …
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Leone Modena
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1622/23
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A copy of the letter from the perfect sage R. Samuel Norzi, of blessed memory, in which he seeks to permit, as per his opinion, the singers [in the synagogue] to…
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Samuel Isaac Norzi, Abraham Graziano
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Senigallia, Papal States
(Senigallia, Italy)
Date:
1645