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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…

Contributor:

Edwin Seroussi

Places:

Ramat Gan, Israel

Date:

1996

Subjects:

Music, Sephardic, Synagogue, Prayer, Ethnography

Categories:

Political Culture, History, Historical Writing
How Should One Pray South of the Equator?
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Rosario, Argentina, June 16, 1914Your Eminence,Permit me to bother you in the name of the Jewish collective of Rosario, because of a divergence of opinion arising between us, about which we desire…

Contributor:

David Pisanté

Places:

Rosario, Argentina

Date:

1914

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Sephardic, Prayer, Assimilation, Exile

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Firsthand Accounts, Letters
The Language of Faith: Selected Jewish Prayers
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“Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. The religious sense prays as the intellectual organ thinks.” Prayer, to carry this saying of Novalis a step further, is a significant…

Contributor:

Nahum N. Glatzer

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Date:

1947

Subjects:

Prayer, Philosophy, Education, Ashkenazi, Sephardic

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Anthologies, Prayer & Liturgy
De Pinto Psalter
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This decorated psalter was made for Aaron de Joseph de Pinto, a member of the prominent Portuguese Jewish family in Amsterdam. It is a manuscript, copied from a print edition done by David de Castro…

Contributor:

Meir Cohen Belinfante, Isaac Siprut

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1728

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Prayer, Sephardic, Jewish languages

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Manuscript page of Hebrew text in center framed with decorations and figures and scenes including two cherubs holding a crown at top, a king holding a harp, and a man holding censer, both with crowns above their heads, and figures at bottom.