Posts by Joshua D. Mendes
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For those in the New York area this Sunday....
Wondering if there is a digitized copy somewhere of David Lévi Alvarès, *Hymnes sacrées à l’usage des Israélites français, composées sur les airs hébraïques-portugais les plus connus* ?
News from Peter Nahon:I am giving a lecture in Bordeaux next month :[http://www.musee-aquitaine-bordeaux.fr/fr/evenement/conference-gascon-et-francais-chez-les-israelites-daquitaine](http://www.musee-aquitaine-bordeaux.fr/fr/evenement/conference-gascon-et-francais-chez-les-israelites-daquitaine)Besides this, I am leading the High Holiday services in the Portuguese ritual in the synagogue of La Cha...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-m5ZQRqbtQ
Never a bad time to revisit a good melody.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOQSaZFfadw(P.S. Has anyone else recorded this?)
Chanukah recordings by the late Rev. Abraham Lopes Cardozo, Hazzan of the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue in New York:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgTBDhCkhzMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrheeDsfJZE&index=43&list=PLVLuBXFXNkq5gVQCRyUaMYlVCHvF1z0Wehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrndTYQ6wGU
A beautiful wedding song....(sung at the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue in Montreal)
Posting on behalf of Peter Nahon....Ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues, dear friends,I am pleased to announce the release of my book entitled:Gascon and French among the Israelites of Aquitaine. Documents and Lexical Inventory. Paris, Classics Garnier, 441 pages.This study examines, for the first time, the linguistic history of the so-called Portuguese Jews of South-West France. After adopting ...
Finale of the summer concert series in Florence....
For anyone in Philadelphia, this will be a special opportunity to hear from the Rev. Rodrigues Pereira, former hazan of the Esnoga in Amsterdam and founder of the newest S&P congregation, Bendigamos...https://www.facebook.com/groups/Bendigamos/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwQYWmdbaQk
fyi....
El nora alila - Western Sephardic אל נורא עלילה
Anyone here like to write and edit....and perhaps help with an occasional newsletter about S&P communities? : )
For those who would like to learn the French S&P liturgy, Temple Buffault in Paris now has this page: http://www.buffault.net/liturgie.html(Thanks to Jacob Oslick for pointing it out.)
Excellent, summertime music and culture series at the Great Synagogue of Florence....
For those who've missed it, Rev. Daniel Halfon has posted quite a few excellent melodies...which is a great learning resource...and personally would just say that this one below is a particular standout!
https://www.facebook.com/lajst/posts/10158724438555472
What are some S&P terminology for Pesah? For example...."Moadim l'Simcha" is said instead of "Hag Sameach" yes? Other examples?
For those in the Philadelphia area.... RABBI ALBERT GABBAI WILL LEAD THE 2ND SESSION ON OUR CHERISHED MINHAGWEDNESDAY -- MARCH 22, 2017 -- 5:30-6:30 P.M.OPENING THE HEKHALCARRYING THE SEFER TORAHACCOMPAGNHARLEVANTARBEING CALLED TO THE TORAHHAFTARAH READERBELLS AND BANDSKAHAL AND TEBAH(Dress, Bowing to the Torah, Offerings, etc....)PRAYERS and MELODIES Explanation and background Please call ...
Interesting article on S@P terminology in "The American Sephardi," (Autumn 1971)....thanks to Daniel Vieyra....
A beautiful Ladino song just heard for the first time today...perhaps others here might also enjoy. An older gentleman from Turkey told me he used to hear his mother sing it while growing up:
What special melodies do we have for Purim?
This Shabbat in Philadelphia.....Congregation Mikveh Israel invites you to join us on SHABBAT YITHRO, February 18, 2017, 22 Shebat 5777, Service 9:00 A.M. We welcome our speaker PROF. CLAUDE STUCZYNSKIFellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies; Department of General History, Bar-Ilan Univ; Board Member of the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters, ...