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Charles-Valentin Alkan
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Paris, Kingdom of France
(Paris, France)
Date:
1844
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1847
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The book’s name: This book [Song of Songs] is called a “song,” a noun bearing several meanings. First, it denotes music, as in the verse: all the daughters of song (Ecclesiastes 12:4), which means…
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Yoḥanan Alemanno
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ca. 1500
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You asked how an object can move without being touched, and this indeed is a puzzling matter to all sages. To explain this issue, I must first discuss some rudiments of the science of music, for if…
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Joseph Solomon Delmedigo
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1629
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Edgar Leslie, Irving Berlin, Artist Unknown
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1909
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Brothers and sisters—all working poor
Wherever you might be scattered on earth
This banner’s now waiting for you, together.
Waving, wrathful, this flag is blood red.
We swear! We swear by the…
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S. An-ski
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Bern, Switzerland
Date:
1902
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[To the tune of “Adir ayom ve-nora.”]
Come, dear friends, let us cry and lament
The horrible things that have happened in these times.
In the year that Messiah was expected amid tribulation [1648],…
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Joseph Lipman Ashkenazi
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Amsterdam, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Poland)
Date:
1648
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The lack of a Hebrew songbook for Jewish schools in the East is known and felt by all Hebrew teachers generally and music teachers, in particular. Although several collections have been…
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Avraham Tsvi Idelsohn
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1912
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On the morning of the twelfth day, the child is bathed and laid in a cradle with the repetition of the word Beshem Adonai that is, “in the…
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Haeem Samuel Kehimkar
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1897–1937