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ca. 1611
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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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Hanover, Germany
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1998
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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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Arad, Austrian Empire (Arad, Romania)
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1818
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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ca. 1831
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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1847
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This scroll of Esther from Germany, created for use on the holiday of Purim, is extensively decorated, with illustrations of biblical scenes from the Esther story, as well as various flora and fauna…
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ca. 1630
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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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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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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