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Seu Shearim (Lift Up Your Heads, O Gates)
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The music for “Se’u She‘arim (Lift Up Your Heads, O Gates)” resembles the choral marches found in grand opera. The words are from Psalm 24: O gates, lift up your heads! Up high, you everlasting doors…

Contributor:

Samuel Naumbourg

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1847

Subjects:

Music, Synagogue, Holidays, Diaspora, Performing arts

Categories:

Performing Arts, Music
Sheet music with transliterated Hebrew lyrics.
Purim Eve, a One-Act Comedy
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Cast [in this passage]Abraham Levi: Rich merchantAneta: Abraham Levi’s wifeMax, Yosef, and Aron: Abraham and Aneta Levi’s sonsFrida and Klerchen: Abraham and Aneta Levi’s daughtersShmuel Natan: Zionis…

Contributor:

Mordechai Monassowitz, Nissim Catalan

Places:

Ottoman Empire (Bulgaria, Bulgaria)

Date:

1902

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Zionism, Assimilation, Purim, Holidays, Performing arts

Categories:

Performing Arts, Theater/Drama