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Judah Leyb Zelichover
1601/11–1640
Judah Leyb ben Moses Minden Zelichover lived in Altona and Hamburg and served as cantor in Aptrud and Minden. His Shire Yehudah (The Songs of Judah), a Sabbath songbook in Hebrew and Yiddish, includes customs and extensive information on contemporary religious practices, including his criticism of cantors who performed theatrically. He longed instead for an older style.
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Shire Yehudah (The Songs of Judah)
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…