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Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue Music in Nineteenth-Century Reform Sources from Hamburg: Ancient Tradition in the Dawn of Modernity
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Let us begin with the most basic questions: Can oral traditions of music constitute a reliable source for historical research? While this question is applicable to most music…

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Edwin Seroussi

Places:

Ramat Gan, Israel

Date:

1996

Subjects:

Music, Sephardic, Synagogue, Prayer, Ethnography

Categories:

Political Culture, History, Historical Writing
Sheyris Yisroel (Remnant of Israel)
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The German holy community of Amsterdam was founded in the year 5396 [1635/6]. This I discovered in a few pages of a book written by Maharam Maarsen, one of the first German Jews in…

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Menaḥem Man Amelander

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1743

Subjects:

Community, Migration, Diaspora, Pogroms, Synagogue

Categories:

History, Historical Writing, Firsthand Accounts
On the Emancipation of Women in Jewish Worship
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Theology teaches us that when God the Eternal formed man He gave him an extra rib. This rib was destined for the formation of woman in order that this creature, who was to become the rich…

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Elissa Lisbonne

Places:

Avignon, France

Date:

1865

Subjects:

Women, Sexism, Ritual & observance, Prayer, Synagogue

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Theology, History, Historical Writing